Borderland Journeys: A Layered Autoethnography
Abstract
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)The collection of pages spread before you now, this story-thesis, is a collection of stories about my journey from cult member to the place in life I am now, stories about those stories, and stories about the people who lived or read them, talked about them, and were changed by the tellings. Most importantly, the goal of this story-thesis is to illustrate how the process of story-making and -telling changes how we interpret our identities and our lifeworlds. I argue that the stories that we share change our identities, and I also argue that how we perceive our identity and the identities of others affects the stories that we share- Thesis
- Autoethnography
- Coordinated Management of Meaning
- Heteroglossia
- A/r/tography
- Stage Theory of Grief
- Symbolic Divergence
- Dialogic Autoethnography
- Ethnology -- Authorship -- Research -- Evaluation
- Ethnology -- Biographical methods
- Ethnology -- Methodology
- Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects
- Discourse analysis
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Communication -- Philosophy
- Self-perception
- Dialogue analysis
- Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands
- McCourt, Frank. Angela's ashes
- Postmodernism (Literature) -- Research -- Evaluation
- Criticism
- Interpersonal communication -- Analysis -- Evaluation
- Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975