ABSTRACT
While these duoethnographers employ the pronoun “we” in the opening paragraph, focusing their attention toward the readers, whose presence is implied, Sonia Aujla-Bhullar and Kari Grain quickly shift into a style that brings the reader into their pursuit of understanding, identity, culture, immigration, nationalism, and race. This duoethnography predominantly reads like a conversation, and readers sit back and watch/listen the story unfold as the duoethnographers talk with one another, trying to create new meanings about past events. As Kari concludes: “It’s almost as if talking about it with you has pulled those past experiences into the present and repositioned them in my adult frame of reference. Then to juxtapose all of this with your narratives of learning . . . it’s kind of enlightening” (pp. 220–221).
