1st Edition
Evocative Autoethnography Writing Lives and Telling Stories
Preface
Introduction
Part One: Origins and History
1. Coming to Autoethnography
2. The Rise of Autoethnography
Part Two: Writing and Telling Evocative Stories
3. Storytelling and Story Writing
4. Thinking with ‘Maternal Connections’
Part Three: Ethical Dilemmas and Ethnographic Choices
5. Doing Evocative Autoethnography Ethically
6. The ‘Ethno’ in Evocative Autoethnography
Part Four: Blending Evocative Genres
7. Thinking with ‘Bird On The Wire’
8. Memory and Truth
Coda
References
Index
About the Authors
Biography
Arthur P. Bochner
I have been engaged, as a teacher and researcher, with autoethnography for over a decade.
Reading this book has me wish that I had encountered it back at the start; perhaps I could have
bypassed much of the confusion I experienced about issues such as paradigm wars, research
genres, the place of the “I” in research inquiry and such like.
David Mc Cormack, Maynooth University, British Journal of Guidance & Counselling






