Previously issued in print: Walnut Creek: Left Coast, 2009.

Preface to the Classic Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Reflecting on Meta-Autoethnography

Part One: Growing Up in a Rural Community, Getting an Education, and Finding My Place in Community Ethnography

Chapter 1: Goin' to the Store, Sittin' on the Street, and Runnin' the Roads: Growing Up in a Rural Southern Neighborhood

Chapter 2: Talking Across Fences: Race Matters

Chapter 3: Investigating the Fisher Folk and Coping with Ethical Quagmires

Part Two: Becoming an Autoethnographer

Chapter 4: Reliving Final Negotiations

Chapter 5: Renegotiating Final Negotiations: From Introspection to Emotional Sociology

Part Three: Surviving and Communicating Family Loss

Chapter 6: Surviving the Loss of My Brother

Chapter 7: Rereading "There Are Survivors": Cultural and Evocative Responses

Chapter 8: Rewriting and Re-Membering Mother

Chapter 9: Coconstructing and Reconstructing "The Constraints of Choice in Abortion"

Part Four: Doing Autoethnography as a Social Project

Chapter 10: Breaking Our Silences/Speaking with Others

Chapter 11: Learning to Be "With" in Personal and Collective Grief

Chapter 12: Connecting Autoethnographic Performance with Community Practice

Part Five: Reconsidering Writing Practices, Relational Ethics, and Rural Communities

Chapter 13: Writing Revision and Researching Ethically

Chapter 14: Returning Home and Revisioning My Story

Notes

References

Name Index by Judy Perry

Subject Index by Judy Perry

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