1st Edition

Autoethnography in the 21st Century, Volume II Genealogy, Memory, Media, Witness

Edited By Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle Copyright 2025
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

Autoethnography in the 21st Century offers interpretive, analytic, interactive, performative, experiential, and embodied forms of autoethnography from around the globe. Volume II, Genealogy, Memory, Media, Witness examines hybrid ethnographic life-writing genres, including genealogical memoir, cultural autotheory, and family narrative. Contributors actively blur the distinction between emic... Read more

Introduction - Autoethnography and Beyond: Genealogy, Memory, Media, Witness

Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle

 

1. Where the Centres Line Up: Finding Myself in the Fabric of the Highlands

Laura J. Beard

 

2. Writing Ourselves into Time: Stories of Indo-Trinidadian Women

Prabha Jerrybandan

 

3. Strangers in a Strange Land: Jewish Memories of Istanbul in the Memoirs of Roni Margulies

Esra Almas

 

4. The Language of Food: Semiotics in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Gastrographies

Leila Moayeri Pazargadi

 

5. Hip Hop, La Crónica and Epiphany in Mexico City: Performative Research, Methodological Identities and Affective Analysis

Ruben Enrique Campos III

 

6. Arriving on YouTube: Vlogs, Automedia and Autoethnography

Ümit Kennedy

 

7. Embodied Dread in Covid-19 Images and Narratives

Sabina M. Perrino

 

8. Embracing the ‘Good-enough’—Teaching, Learning, Living During the COVID-19 Lockdown

Irene Strasser

 

Biography

Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle is Professor of English at The College of New Jersey. Her work appears in Life Writing, Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, The European Journal of Life Writing, Persona Studies, and a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. She was the 2021-22 Fulbright Research Chair of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alberta in Edmonton Canada. Her books, Américanas, Autocracy, and Autobiographical Innovation: Overwriting the Dictator (2020) and Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood: In the Spaces Provided (2023) are published with Routledge Press in its Auto/biography Studies Series. Her current project, tentatively titled Life’s Work: Career Narrative as Autobiography in the North American Academy, is a study of functional forms of life writing in academic careers. She serves as Editor in Chief of a/b: Auto/biography Studies.