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Autoethnography
Autoethnography (exerpted from the an essay by Kathryn Dyer, Instructor at Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA) What is autoethnography? Is it the narrative revisited, with a bit more self-analysis? Or is it a type of writing that differs drastically from the narrative? Students and faculty alike seem to be in a quandary over this question. One student was overheard saying "So, I'm supposed to classify myself in a group, and write about this group, including myself, as if I'm talking to someone who's not in the group? I don't get it."This web page begins as an attempt to somehow "define" a genre of writing that, as you will see, defies real definition. In an attempt to save autoethnography from going the way of the narrative, I will try to point out some qualities of autoethnography that should be adhered to as well as those qualities that will necessarily differ from text to text Works Cited Ahokas, Marianne. Personal interview. 30 November 1999. Kideckel, David A. "Autoethnography as Political Resistance: A Case from Socialist Romania." __Auto/Ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social__. Ed. Deborah Reed- Danahay. Oxford: Berg, 1997. 71-104. Motzafi-Haller, Pnina. "Writing Birthright: On Native Anthropologists and the Politics of Representation." __Auto/Ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social__. Ed. Deborah Reed-Danahay. Oxford: Berg, 1997. 195-222. Pratt, Mary Louise. "Arts of the Contact Zone." __Ways of Reading: An Anthology__ __for Writers__. Eds. David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999. 582-595. Reed-Danahay, Deborah E. Introduction. __Auto/Ethnography: Rewriting the Self__ __and the Social__. Ed. Reed-Danahay. Oxford: Berg, 1997. 1-17. Stacey, David. "Spanish Theater and Autoethnography and Analysis." Online Posting. 30 Nov. 1999. hsu-engl611-1. 30 Nov. 1999.  and <100fac@redwood.humboldt.edu>. Zebroski, James and Nancy Mack. "Ethnographic Writing for Critical Consciousness." __Social Issues in the English Classroom__. Eds. C. Mark Hurlbert and Samuel Totten. Urbana, IL; NCTE, 1992.

Scholarly Articles about Autoethnography Holt, N. (2003). Representation, legitimation, and autoethnography: An authoethnographic writing story. //International Journal of Qualitative Methods//, 2 (1) Winter 2003. Available online at: http://www.ualberta.ca/~iiqm/backissues/2_1/pdf/holt.pdf