On (writing) families
Subtitle: autoethnographies of presence and absence, love and loss
By: edited by Jonathan Wyatt, the University of Edinburgh, UK, and Tony E. Adams, Northeastern Illinois University, USA,
Publisher: Sense Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Rotterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9789462096219; 9789462096202; 9789462096226
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Parent and child; Families
Description: "Who are we with--and without--families? How do we relate as children to our parents, as parents to our children? How are parent-child relationships--and familial relationships in general--made and (not) maintained? Informed by narrative, performance studies, poststructuralism, critical theory, and queer theory, contributors to this collection use autoethnography--a method that uses the personal to examine the cultural--to interrogate these questions. The essays write about/around issues of interpersonal distance and closeness, gratitude and disdain, courage and fear, doubt and certainty, openness and secrecy, remembering and forgetting, accountability and forgiveness, life and death. Throughout, family relationships are framed as relationships that inspire and inform, bind and scar--relationships replete with presence and absence, love and loss. An essential text for anyone interested in autoethnography, personal narrative, identity, relationships, and family communication."--Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction / Jonathan Wyatt and Tony E. Adams; title: 2. Fatherly love / Mort Mather; title: 3. Always strange: transforming loss / Stacy Holman Jones; title: 4. On gratitude, for my father / Craig Gingrich-Philbrook; title: 5. Confessions of a feminist mother raising a preteen daughter / Patricia Leavy; title: 6. Roses and grime: tattoos, texts, and failure / Desirée Rowe; title: 7. What's in a name? Secrets, haunting, and family ties / Liz Bondi; title: 8. From absence to presence: finding mother, ever again / Mark Freeman; title: 9. Corporeal kinship: dancing the entanglements of love and loss / Beatrice Allegranti; title: 10. Ghost-child / Anne M. Harris; title: 11. Living places / Jeannie Wright; title: 12. My daddy is slick, brown, and cool like water / Robin M. Boylorn; title: 13. The ghostwriter: living a father's unfinished narrative / Andrew F. Herrmann; title: 14. Going home / Kitrina Douglas; title: 15. Dying in the care of the NHS: fragments from a daughter's love song for her father / Jane Speedy; title: 16. Temporary blindness / Gunnhildur Una Jonsdottir; title: 17. Bedtime stories / Sophie Tamas; title: 18. After dinners, in the garage, out of doors, and climbing on rocks: writing aesthetic moments of father-son / Derek M. Bolen; title: 19. Ties that bind, ties that scar / Tony E. Adams and Jonathan Wyatt.