Autoethnography in the 21st Century

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Autoethnography in the 21st Century is written by Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1032754354 (ISBN 10) and 9781032754352 (ISBN 13).

Autoethnography in the 21st century offers interpretive, analytic, interactive, performative, experiential, and embodied forms of autoethnography from around the globe. Volume I, Colonialism, immigration, embodiment, and belonging, examines forms of autoethnography as a decolonizing and dehegemonizing practice in the allegedly post-racial, post-colonial, and post-(hetero)sexist twenty-first century. Contributors use autoethnographic methods and practices to interrogate the dominant cultural practices and political exigencies that have shaped their lives, their arts, and their academic work on bicultural, queer, gender-subordinated, or post-colonial experience. Volume II, Genealogy, memory, media, and witness ,examines hybrid ethnographic life-writing genres, including genealogical memoir, cultural autotheory, and family narrative. Contributors actively blur the distinction between emic and etic classifications of ethnographic experience to position themselves as both the active bearers of and critical witnesses of culture to produce and analyze expressive rather than data-driven depictions of selfhood and culture that emerge in the spaces between traditionally self-effacing scientific methods and literary narrative. The two volume features autobiographical and anthropological poetics, autotheory, and fieldwork grounded in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Europe, Australia, China, Canada, and the United States. The books will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of critical autoethnography, communication, cultural and gender studies, and other related disciplines. The chapters in the two volumes were originally published as special issues of Life writing (2022).