1st Edition
Writing and Other Familiar Things Autoethnographic Possibilities
Preface: A Hermit Crab Introduction
PART I: WRITING
1. Pertaining to Writing
2. Writing with Uncertainty and Hope
3. A Menagerie of Writing Possibilities: Getting It Right
4. Epigraphs for Writers Considering Errors
5. Telling Secrets
6. What Can Writing Do?
7. Some Things I Remember about Memory and Writing
8. Still Going at It: Creative Longevity as a Desire for the Unobtainable
9. Thirteen Ars Poeticas Following Wallace Stevens
PART II: OTHER FAMILIAR THINGS
10. Selling Sea Shells: A Narrative Conchology
11. The Hands’ Methods: An Embodied Practice
12. Negotiated Conundrums: Creative-Relational Inquiry
13. Masks: Always Becoming
14. An Old Man Stands in Front of the Class: Vignettes
15. Contact and the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020-23: An Ongoing History
16. Together, Everyday: A Composite Ethnodrama
17. Telling on Partners: Fictive Monologues
18. Hats: A Tailored Memoir
19. Digging the Garden: Posthumanist Disappointments, Puzzles, and Pleasures
20. Mom and Dad’s Letters: An Epistolary Speculation
21. Living with Loss: A Lyric Listing
22. Finding my Way into Resistance: Political Desires
23. Those Barnacles: A Metaphoric Argument
24. An Eye on Hope: A Series of Personal Pronouncements
25. Writing into Hope: A Blended Autoethnography
Afterward: The Book’s Eulogy
Biography
Ronald J. Pelias is a Professor Emeritus from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. His most recent books are The Creative Qualitative Researcher and Lessons on Aging and Dying.
