num_pages: 128
description: It is time to chart a new course writes Norman K. Denzin in Interpretive Autoethnography Second Edition . I want to turn the traditional life story biographical project into an interpretive autoethnographic project into a critical performative practice a practice that begins with the biography of the writer and moves outward to culture discourse history and ideology.Drawing on C. Wright Mills Sartre and Derrida Denzin lays out the key assumptions terms and parameters of autoethnography provides a guide to using and studying personal experience and considers the dilemmas and political implications of textualizing a life. He weaves his narrative through family stories and concludes with thoughts concerning a performance-centered pedagogy and the directions concerns and challenges for autoethnography.
language: English
title: Interpretive Autoethnography
publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc