Table of Contents

One: Growing Up in a Rural Community, Getting and Education, and Finding My Place in Community Ethnography; One: Goin' to the Store, Sittin' on the Street, and Runnin' the Roads; Two: Talking Across Fences; Three: Investigating the Fisher Folk and Coping with Ethical Quagmires; Two: Becoming an Autoethnographer; Four: Reliving Final Negotiations; Five: Renegotiating Final Negotiations; Three: Surviving and Communicating Family Loss; Six: Surviving the Loss of My Brother; Seven: Rereading “There Are Survivors”; Eight: Rewriting and Re-Membering Mother; Nine: Coconstructing and Reconstructing The Constraints of Choice in Abortion; Four: Doing Autoethnography as a Social Project; Ten: Breaking Our Silences/Speaking with Others; Eleven: Learning to Be With in Personal and Collective Grief; Twelve: Connecting Autoethnographic Performance with Community Practice; Five: Reconsidering Writing Practices, Relational Ethics, and Rural Communities; Thirteen: Writing Revision and Researching Ethically; Fourteen: Returning Home and Revisioning My Story

About the Author

Carolyn Ellis is professor of communication and sociology in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida. She is the author of Final Negotiations (1995) and The Ethnographic I (2004) and numerous autoethnographic short stories. She is also coeditor (with Arthur Bochner) of Composing Ethnography (1996), Ethnographically Speaking (2002), and the Left Coast book series Writing Lives.

Reviews

"Revision is primarily a why-to-do autoethnography book rather than a how-to-do autoethnography manual. It is a testament to the importance and value of autoethnography as a qualitative research method. Ellis examines and re-examines her 'I' in ways that 'aren't easily addressed by orthodox social science.' This book is appropriate for beginner and veteran autoethnography researchers alike, as it showcases some of the finest autoethnographic works in print."- The Qualitative Report

"Everyone who is interested in autoethnography and ethnography, autobiography and biography, in writing and the rhythm of life should read this book. You should read this book, and feel it, and then go back to work and live it." - Leanne Pupcheck, Southern Communication Journal