Open AccessAutoethnography as a Never-Ending Story: A Review of Guyana Diaries: Women’s Lives across Difference
Author(s) -
Laurie L. Charlés
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the qualitative report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 35
ISSN - 2160-3715
DOI - 10.46743/2160-3715/2008.2812
Subject(s) - autoethnography , transformative learning , qualitative research , sociology , gender studies , psychoanalysis , psychology , pedagogy , anthropology
The proliferation of autoethnographies offers scholars and writers multiple opportunities to consider the various methods of authorial positioning in qualitative research inquiry. In this article, I review Guyana Diaries: Women's Lives across Difference, by Kimberly D. Nettles, while reflecting my own choices as an autoethnographic author. Autoethnographic writing is presented as a 'never-ending story,' which may have lasting, transformative effects on those who produce it.