Review of Carolyn Ellis' Book, Revision: Autoethnographic Reflections of Life and Work

Authors

Camille Sutton-Brown, Georgia State UniversityFollow

Abstract

In Revision: Autoethnographic Reflections of Life and Work (2008), Carolyn Ellis demonstrates a striking ability to tell stories while simultaneously interrogating their meanings. Ellis uses autoethnography and meta-autoethnography to write herself and others into stories which connect to issues that extend beyond the particular characters in the stories. This book demonstrates the value that autoethnography can offer to researcher, reader, academia, as well as to community practice. This review introduces the term experiential layering as a way to describe Ellis' revisioning of the stories that she presented in The Ethnographic I.

Keywords

Autoethnography, Meta-autoethnography, Experiential Layering, Qualitative Research

Publication Date

9-1-2010

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2010.1349

Recommended APA Citation

Sutton-Brown, C. (2010). Review of Carolyn Ellis' Book, Revision: Autoethnographic Reflections of Life and Work. The Qualitative Report, 15(5), 1306-1308. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2010.1349