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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.

How to Make Students Laugh in Spanish: Some Serious Considerations

Annie Abbott·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Laughter Special Issue, 2023 Special Issues

·October 28, 2023·9 min read

However, this autoethnographic piece helped me recognize the importance of levity even when the intellectual content is heavy.

Power Relations: German Language, New Identities and Sense of Belonging

Hongwei Bao·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Volume 3, Issue 2 (2023)

·May 14, 2023·9 min read

This autoethnographic account explores the complex relationship between language and identity.

How to Find Your Own Voice: Journeying in the World of Poetry

Ulla-Maija Matikainen·

All Content Autoethnographic Essays Autoethnographic Poetry Education From the Editors More Volume 3, Issue 2 (2023)

·April 6, 2023·4 min read

A tsunami of words, images, learned and pushed feelings and thoughts go through us every day. Poetry is a way to find our own voice.

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¡Aguacate!, Part II: How I Learned Two Languages

Stephanie Abraham·

All Content Autoethnographic Writing Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

·July 18, 2022·9 min read

"In "Becoming Multilingual," part 2 of my column, "¡Aguacate! Bringing Up Bebe Bilingüe," I use autoethnography as a writing approach to capture and represent the personal experiences of myself, a qualitative researcher, who has become the researched."

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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: Eulogy For a Perfume

Annie B. Shapero·

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

·May 31, 2022·12 min read

"When a favorite perfume ceases to exist, it is another kind of death. Having been created, it leaves a special sort of emptiness," from Eulogy for a Perfume.

Climate Epiphany: Dante’s Hell and Our Tragedy with Nature

Ulla-Maija Matikainen·

All Content Autoethnographic Essays Climate Change Special Issue, 2022 Special Issues

·May 22, 2022·4 min read

"Ongoing horrific events painstakingly filled my mind when I submerged into Dante’s Commedia Divina. Our tragedy with nature revealed itself to me in its deepest form."

¡Aguacate! Bringing Up Bebe Bilingüe: Part 1, Whiteness and Word Gaps

Stephanie Abraham·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Autoethnographic Writing Volume 2, Issue 1 (2022)

·March 17, 2022·14 min read

"The words we use and how we say them are much more than sounds, they tell a story that gives us away, revealing a history about and behind us, a place and a people that we have come from."

The Epidemic No One Talked About: A Love Letter

Horror, Hate, and Hysteria: How to Survive the Exigencies of War

An Autoethnographic Video Response to COVID-19: “Waiting for Elijah”

From the Current Special Issue: Laughter and Estrangement

How to Survive a Cult in Nebraska

What Does Homesickness Look Like? Concrete, Fish, & Staying the Same

The Resistant Analysand: A Memoir

Emerging Immigrant’s Accents: This is the Spoken Birthright of Bicultural Spanglish

The Pandemic Nature Project, Filmed Vignettes of Life During COVID

Armored Corps: The Spirit of Combativeness and Human Resilience – Graphic Narratives (2022-23)

Autoethnography and Artwork: Revealing Oppression in “Supreme Justice”

SEE ME, Windows to the Self of the Performer-Autoethnographer

Answering the Call of Conscience in Call Out Culture

A Conversation with Patricia Leavy about Writing Fiction During the Pandemic and Her New Novel, The Location Shoot

Life in Okinawa Under the American Military

What Is Autoethnography? How Can I Learn More?

Genuine Confessions from the Fearless Sommelier: Mixing Wine And Water?

Operating on the Funny Bone: Poems from a Heart Surgeon

Autoethnographic Essay: The Unbearable Triteness of Being (Middle Class)