The Ethnographic I (Ethnographic Alternatives, Volume 13): A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography Book

	Cast of Characters
	Preface
Class 1	Introductions and Interruptions	1
Class 2	The Call of Autoethnographic Stories	24
Class 3	Autoethnography in Interview Research	58
Class 4	Autoethnographic Projects: Putting the Self into Research	86
Class 5	Writing Field Notes, Interviews, and Stories: Issues of Memory and Truth	112
Class 6	Writing Therapeutically, Vulnerably, Evocatively, and Ethically	130
	Class Interludes: Living Autoethnography: Life Informs Work Informs Life	156
Class 7	Writing as Inquiry	169
	Friendship Interlude: Artful Autoethnography	184
Class 8	Autoethnographic Forms of Writing	193
Class 9	Final Projects	219
Class 10	Evaluating and Publishing Autoethnography	249
	Community Interlude: Taking Autoethnographic Research to a Domestic Abuse Shelter	269
	Participant Interludes: Autoethnographic Conversations about Autoethnography	284
	Author Interlude: Writing a Methodological Novel: Thinking Like an Ethnographer, Writing Like a Novelist	330
App. I	Suggested Readings and Assignments for an Autoethnography Class	351
App. II	Chart of Impressionist and Realist Ethnography	359
App. III	Guidelines for Personal Writing Papers	365
App. IV	Editing Personal Narratives	369
	Notes	371
	References	389
	Name Index	413
	Subject Index	419
	About the Author	427