Autoethnography In The 21St Century Volume I Colonialism Immigration Embodiment And Belonging

Autoethnography in the 21st Century offers interpretive analytic interactive performative experiential and embodied forms of autoethnography from around the globe. Volume I Colonialism Immigration Embodiment Belonging examines forms of autoethnography as a decolonizing and dehegemonizing practice in the allegedly post-racial post-colonial and post-(hetero)sexist twenty-first century. Contributors use autoethnographic methods and practices to interrogate the dominant cultural practices and political exigencies that have shaped their lives their arts and their academic work on bicultural queer gender-subordinated or post-colonial experience. It features autobiographical and anthropological poetics autotheory and fieldwork grounded in Africa Argentina Australia Canada China and the United States. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of critical autoethnography communication cultural and gender studies and other related disciplines. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Life Writing. |Autoethnography in the 21st Century Volume I Colonialism Immigration Embodiment and Belonging