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- adjective Referring to a writing (book or article) about ones own ethnic background.
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Examples
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I guess I'm just in my "autoethnography" mode, since this ridiculous family literacies project is due in less than three weeks and I just found out now.
nspblues Diary Entry nspblues 2002
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Where would you fit an emerging area I'd call "identity, self-representation, autoethnography"?
Dominant research areas? Torill 2005
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In recent decades autoethnography, critique, and resistance have reconnected with writing in a contemporary creation of the contact zone, the testimonio...
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On the walk to my car I flipped through my newly-returned paperwork and found her comments on my autoethnography (that final journal project I brainstormed).
nspblues Diary Entry nspblues 2003
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After class I took a few minutes to ask my professor about getting back my autoethnography and portfolio from last semester, and then see whether she would mind writing one of my recommendations.
nspblues Diary Entry nspblues 2003
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I wrote this little "essay" last August on the 5-year anniversary of the day it happened and later used it as part of my autoethnography project for Family Literacies.
nspblues Diary Entry nspblues 2003
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After the autoethnography and the group presentation and the debates and other "final" endeavors, the sense of finality that I'm already feeling about this class is preventing me from understanding what could possibly be put on a final exam at this point.
nspblues Diary Entry nspblues 2002
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As of 4: 02 a.m. this morning, following those hours 'worth of work, printer malfunctioning, and program errors, my autoethnography was officially completed.
nspblues Diary Entry nspblues 2002
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Now I sit here, having not read the Poe selections assigned for American Lit., trying desperately to devise a theme for my final autoethnography project for Family Literacies (for those who aren't up-to-date on that, I got my professor's approval to do a creative writing piece rather than stick to the pre-outlined project we were originally handed ... one that includes drawing, music, recorded interviews, transcriptions, essays, etc ... anyway, screw that).
nspblues Diary Entry nspblues 2002
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Saw the National Museum and then a wonderful exhibit on Yeats. autoethnography (without a methods section!) in my Ireland blog post
Silence and Voice 2009
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