Revision: Autoethnographic Reflections on Life and Work

ISBN-13: 9780367201135 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 370 str.

Carolyn Ellis

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This volume collects a dozen of Ellis’s stories—about the loss of her husband, brother and mother; of growing up in small town Virginia; about the work of the ethnographer; about emotionally charged life issues such as abortion, caregiving, and love.

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Carolyn Ellis is Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Communication and Sociology at the University of South Florida. She has contributed to the narrative and autoethnographic study of human life through integrating ethnographic, literary, and evocative writing to portray and make sense of lived experience in cultural context. Her publications include Final Negotiations: A Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness, Evocative Autoethnography: Writing Lives and Telling Stories (with Arthur Bochner), and Autoethnography: Understanding Qualitative Research and Handbook of Autoethnography, both with Tony E. Adams and Stacy Holman Jones. She co-edits the Routledge book series Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives.