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Interpretive Autoethnography Norman K. Denzin

Interpretive Autoethnography By Norman K. Denzin

Interpretive Autoethnography by Norman K. Denzin


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In this book, Norman Denzin combines one of the oldest techniques in the social sciences with one of the newest.

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Interpretive Autoethnography by Norman K. Denzin

Like all writing, biographies are interpretive. In Interpretive Autoethnography, Norman Denzin combines one of the oldest techniques in the social sciences with one of the newest. Bringing in elements of postmodernism and interpretive social science, he reexamines the biographical and autobiographical genres as methods for qualitative researchers. Grounded in theory and rigorous analysis, this accessible book points up the inherent weaknesses in traditional biographical forms and outlines a new way in which biographies should be conceptualized and shaped. The book provides a guide to the assumptions of the biographical method, to its key terms, and to the strategies for gathering and interpreting such materials. Denzin introduces the key concept of epiphany, or turning points in person's lives. A final chapter returns to autoethnography's primary purpose: to make sense of our fragmented lives.

Interpretive Autoethnography Reviews

Norman K. Denzin's newest text, Interpretive Autoethnography, intricately blends the best of Interpretive Biography (1989) and Interpretive Interactionism (2001). It is a must read for advanced, seriously committed narrative, autoethnographic researchers and writers. Denzin succeeds at making autoethnographic terminology accessible. Crisp accounts illustrate the abundance of terms and characteristics. Writers now have a means to write with new and varied eyes elevating participants' voices. Stories blend histories, cultures, drama and myriad other features that Denzin illuminates to add sincerity to text. -- Lois McFadyen Christensen
This is a groundbreaking and visionary text for anyone interested in autoethnography, personal experience, and life story research. -- Tony E. Adams
Denzin's Interpretive Autoethnography provides a deeply comprehensive and deftly concise analysis of autoethnographic methods, theories, and trends. He places autoethnography where it belongs, grounded in theory and rigorous analysis. From Sartre to Conquergood, Anzuldua to Derrida, Denzin tracks the philosophical and methodological journey of autoethnography as an interpretive, performative, poststructural, and politically transgressive methodology. This is the foundational survey text for autoethnographic inquiry belonging under the arm of students and accomplished scholars alike walking into a qualitative methods classroom. -- Tami Spry

About Norman K. Denzin

Norman K. Denzin is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. One of the world's foremost authorities on qualitative research and cultural criticism, he is the author or editor of more than 30 books, including The Qualitative Manifesto; Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire; Reading Race; Interpretive Ethnography; The Cinematic Society; The Alcoholic Self; and a trilogy on the American West. He is past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, co-editor of six editions of the landmark SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, co-editor (with Michael D. Giardina) of 18 books on qualitative inquiry, co-editor (with Yvonna S. Lincoln and Michael D. Giardina) of the methods journal Qualitative Inquiry, founding editor of Cultural Studies?Critical Methodologies and International Review of Qualitative Research, editor of four book series, and founding director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.

Table of Contents

1. Assumptions of the Method 2. A Clarification of Terms 3. Interpretive Guidelines 4. Selves, Stories, Experiences 5. Evaluating Performance Autoethnography 6. In Conclusion: Performing Lives

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CIN1452299811VG
9781452299815
1452299811
Interpretive Autoethnography by Norman K. Denzin
Used - Very Good
Paperback
SAGE Publications Inc
20140121
160
N/A
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