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Why I Write: An Essay on Language, Writing and Identity

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Volume 3, Issue 4 (2023)

·October 31, 2023·28 min read

This autoethnographic essay offers a musing on the intricate relationship between language, writing and identity through an autoethnographic account of my reading and writing experience from childhood to present, and from China to the UK via Germany.

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Racial Discrimination in and out of the Classroom

Brittany Whitneybell·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Volume 3, Issue 3 (2023)

·August 27, 2023·63 min read

This work shows that the benefits of reading multiple texts, each from a different perspective provides opportunities for students.

That Warm Alaskan Welcome: Commercial Genetics and Mothers’ Secrets

Francesca Penchant·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Volume 4, Issue 4 (2024)

·November 17, 2024·20 min read

Commercial genetics has become a cultural phenomenon. In this piece, I use autobiography to document discovering my biological father.

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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: Cooking with Cannabis

Sandra L. Faulkner·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Autoethnographic Writing Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)

·November 20, 2021·19 min read

"When I return to Sam’s place with the cheesecloth, I smell our “soup” pot. Shit. I envision the blotter headline: ECU Professor busted for marijuana. What a way to make my graduate mentors proud and to show success at this professor business."

A Collision of Several Cultures: My Old Kentucky Homo

Joshua Adair·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Queer Special Issue, 2023-24

·May 13, 2023·15 min read

"My Old Kentucky Homo," highlights my failure to assimilate into the community in which I still live, fourteen years later.

What Happens When You Surrender to Mainstream Capitalist Power Dynamics

Laura Babb·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Volume 4, Issue 3 (2024)

·September 24, 2024·7 min read

In this four-part series, I’ll take you back through my journey from the beginning. To explore how the conditioning of the Western environment I was born into served in disconnecting me from my own inner authenticity.

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Never Quite The Same: Fluid Meanings in Autoethnography

Karenanna Boyle Creps·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Volume 3, Issue 4 (2023)

·October 25, 2023·9 min read

I share the complexity of my frustration about a failed site visit to the British Museum and wonder about the meaning of the experience.

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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: I Just Want to Go Home – Moving, Loss and Unacknowledged Grief

Michelle Reale·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Autoethnographic Writing Volume 2, Issue 2 (2022)

·March 23, 2022·18 min read

"Moving away from a beloved home at a tender age was traumatizing, in part, because that home was the only place in which I felt safe."

Loss Series 1: Coping with Pet Bereavement and My Forever Love for My Beautiful Cat, ‘Timi’

Dilek Isler Hayirli·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Volume 4, Issue 2 (2024)

·June 1, 2024·7 min read

Coping with Pet Bereavement: My Forever Love for My Beautiful Cat 'Timi' is definitely not a farewell; it is only a love letter for my beloved cat who got lost on January 15, 2023, days after a magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit southern Türkiye. Like my country, I was also shaken deeply, and like the buildings, my heart almost collapsed.