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On (Writing) Families

Autoethnographies of Presence and Absence, Love and Loss

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Jonathan Wyatt

    1. The University of Edinburgh, UK

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  2. Tony E. Adams

    1. Northeastern Illinois University, USA

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Jonathan Wyatt, Tony E. Adams
    Pages 1-6

  3. Fatherly Love

    • Mort Mather
    Pages 8-11

  4. Always Strange

    • Stacy Holman Jones
    Pages 14-21

  5. On Gratitude, for My Father

    • Craig Gingrich-Philbrook
    Pages 23-29

  6. Confessions of a Feminist Mother Raising a Preteen Daughter

    • Patricia Leavy
    Pages 31-35

  7. Roses and Grime

    • Desirée D. Rowe
    Pages 37-41

  8. What’s in a Name?

    • Liz Wyatt
    Pages 43-48

  9. From Absence to Presence

    • Mark Freeman
    Pages 49-55

  10. Corporeal Kinship

    • Beatrice Allegranti
    Pages 57-67

  11. Ghost-Child

    • Anne M. Harris
    Pages 69-75

  12. Living Places

    • Jeannie Wright
    Pages 77-83

  13. My Daddy is Slick, Brown, and Cool Like Ice Water

    • Robin M. Boylorn
    Pages 85-93

  14. The Ghostwriter

    • Andrew F. Herrmann
    Pages 95-101

  15. Going Home

    • Kitrina Douglas
    Pages 103-114

  16. Dying in the Care of the NHS

    • Jane Speedy
    Pages 115-122

  17. Temporary Blindness

    • Gunnhildur Una Jonsdottir
    Pages 123-129

  18. Bedtime Stories

    • Sophie Tamas
    Pages 131-139

  19. After Dinners, in the Garage, Out of Doors, and Climbing on Rocks

    • Derek M. Bolen
    Pages 141-147

  20. Ties that Bind, Ties that Scar

    • Tony E. Adams, Jonathan Wyatt
    Pages 149-150
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About this book

Who are we with—and without—families? How do we relate as children to our parents, as parents to our children? How are parent-child relationships—and familial relationships in general—made and (not) maintained? Informed by narrative, performance studies, poststructuralism, critical theory, and queer theory, contributors to this collection use autoethnography—a method that uses the personal to examine the cultural—to interrogate these questions. The essays write about/around issues of interpersonal distance and closeness, gratitude and disdain, courage and fear, doubt and certainty, openness and secrecy, remembering and forgetting, accountability and forgiveness, life and death. Throughout, family relationships are framed as relationships that inspire and inform, bind and scar—relationships replete with presence and absence, love and loss. An essential text for anyone interested in autoethnography, personal narrative, identity, relationships, and family communication.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The University of Edinburgh, UK

    Jonathan Wyatt

  • Northeastern Illinois University, USA

    Tony E. Adams

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: On (Writing) Families

  • Book Subtitle: Autoethnographies of Presence and Absence, Love and Loss

  • Editors: Jonathan Wyatt, Tony E. Adams

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-622-6

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6209-622-6Published: 03 July 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 150

  • Topics: Education, general

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