Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom
by Melissa Tombro
Publisher: Open SUNY Textbooks 2016
ISBN-13: 9781942341284
Number of pages: 302
Description:
The book is dedicated to the practice of immersive ethnographic and autoethnographic writing that encourages authors to participate in the communities about which they write. This book draws not only on critical qualitative inquiry methods such as interview and observation, but also on theories and sensibilities from creative writing and performance studies, which encourage self-reflection and narrative composition.
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