ABSTRACT
Critical Autoethnography: Intersecting Cultural Identities in Everyday Life, Second Edition, examines the development of the field of critical autoethnography through the lens of social identity. Contributors situate interpersonal and intercultural experiences of gender, race, ethnicity, ability, citizenship, sexuality, and spirituality within larger systems of power, oppression, and privilege.
Approachable and accessible narratives highlight intersectional experiences of marginalization and interrogate social injustices. The book is divided into three sections: Complexities of Identity Performance, Relationships in Diverse Contexts, and Pathways to Culturally Authentic Selves. Each thematic section includes provocative stories that critically engage personal and cultural narratives through a lens of difference. The chapters in the book highlight both unique and ubiquitous, extraordinary and common experiences in the interior lives of people who are Othered because of at least two overlapping identities. The contributors offer first person accounts to suggest critical responses and alternatives to injustice.
The book also includes sectional summaries and discussion questions to facilitate dialogue and self-reflection. It is an excellent resource for undergraduate students, graduate students, educators, and scholars who are interested in autoethnography, interpersonal and intercultural communication, qualitative studies, personal narrative, cultural studies, and performance studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |18 pages
Introduction
part I|70 pages
Complexities of Identity Performance
chapter 2|13 pages
Critical Autoethnography as Intersectional Praxis
part I|7 pages
Complexities of Identity Performance
part II|74 pages
Relationships in Diverse Contexts
chapter 6|12 pages
Post–Coming Out Complications
chapter 8|12 pages
Negating the Inevitable
chapter 9|12 pages
Deep South Mennonite, Transgender Amish
part II|8 pages
Relationships in Diverse Contexts
part III|74 pages
Pathways to Culturally Authentic Selves
chapter 14|13 pages
Socioeconomic (Im)mobility
chapter 15|13 pages
Tongue Does Matter
part III|8 pages
Pathways to Culturally Authentic Selves