Storying the Self

Storying the Self

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Using writing and narrative to make sociopolitical meaning from autobiography.  
Through a wide array of texts and methodologies, Storying the Self spotlights autoethnographic research—and pushes the discipline in new directions. This edited volume aims to explore critical and creative approaches to understanding the self in relation to vital social, cultural, and political spheres. Chapters touch on memory and nostalgia, voluntourism in Malawi, the importance of intersectionality, documentary filmmaking, epilepsy, and other experiences to examine the role of the self, as both researcher and storyteller.
 
Storying the Self features contributions by Ross Adamson, Suzy Bamblett, Emily Bell, Jenni Cresswell, Hannah Davita Ludikhuijze, Sandra Lyndon, Vanessa Marr, Éva Mikuska, Jess Moriarty, Deirdre Russell, Louise Spiers, Holly Stewart, and Lucianna Whittle. It is the first book in Intellect’s innovative new series Performance and Communities, which celebrates, challenges, and researches performance in the real world.

Jess Moriarty is a principal lecturer at the University of Brighton where she teaches creative writing and is co-director for the Centre of Arts and Wellbeing. Ross Adamson is a senior lecturer at the University of Brighton. His research interests include narrative hermeneutics, writing inquiry, documentary filmmaking, ethics, and digital storytelling.
 
Introduction – Jess Moriarty and Ross Adamson – Introduction 
 
Chapter One – Jenni Cresswell – Timeframes of Love: Perceptions of Memory and Nostalgia Explored through Creative Practice  
 
Chapter Two – Hannah Davita Ludikhuijze – Storying the Self as an Outsider within the Community?–?the Self-transformative Performance of Voluntourists in Rural Malawi? 
 
Chapter Three – Sandra Lyndon and Éva Mikuska – Narratives,?co-constructions,?co-performances?and co-reflections:? the production of ‘self’ in research and the importance of intersectionality 
 
Chapter Four – Suzy Bamblett – ‘The child destined to be a writer is vulnerable to every wind that blows.’:  How to grow an?autoethnographer.?? 
 
Chapter Five – Deirdre Russell – Narrativity vs Network: Competing models of identity in the autobiographical film Shock of the Muse 
 
Chapter Six – Vanessa Marr – Domestic Academic – A Self-Portrait 
 
Chapter Seven – Lucianna Whittle and?Jess Moriarty?- Woman must write her self?–?a?collaborative autoethnography?on two women’s experiences with a community research project? 
 
Chapter Eight – Emily Bell – What I Left in Haworth. 
 
Chapter Nine – Ross Adamson – The ‘ghost teacher’: Writing stories of first-time documentary filmmakers 
 
Chapter Ten – Louise Spiers?- An autoethnographic?Salon des?Refusés?of spiritual experiences of epilepsy 
 
Chapter Eleven – Holly Stewart?- Writing to ‘Take Back Control’: Using Autoethnography to Examine Narratives Within a Post-Brexit Society? 

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