ABSTRACT
This chapter narrates the qualitative analysis processes behind an article titled “Waltzing Matilda: An autoethnography of a father’s stillbirth,” which was published in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography in 2012. The author explores how others’ narratives, academic literature, making comics, interacting with reviewers, and the act of writing itself created analytical opportunities for understanding his experiences of his daughter’s stillbirth. Examples of notes and comics, a photograph, and an EndNote software screenshot supplement the analysis. The unique analytical expectations of autoethnography as a research method that uses individual experiences to illuminate the experiences of a larger, culture-sharing group is also explored.
