Editing Autoethnography (section)

==== Stories and storytelling ====

Autoethnography showcases stories as the means in which [[sensemaking]] and researcher [[Reflexivity (social theory)|reflexivity]] create descriptions and critiques of culture. Adams, Jones, and [[Carolyn Ellis|Ellis]] write: 
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Reflexivity includes both acknowledging and critiquing our place and privilege in society and using the stories we tell to ''break long-held silences'' on power, relationships, cultural taboos, and forgotten and/or suppressed experiences.<ref name=":12" />
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A focus is placed a writer's ability to develop writing and representation skills alongside other analytic abilities. Adams switches between [[First-person narrative|first-person]] and [[Second-person narrative|second-person narration]] in ''Living (In) the Closet: The Time of Being Closeted'' as a way to "bring readers into my story, inviting them to live my experiences alongside me, feeling how I felt and suggesting how they might, under similar circumstances, act as I did."<ref name="Adams2015" /> Similarly, [[Carolyn Ellis|Ellis]] in ''Maternal Connections'' chose to steer away from the inclusion of references to the research literature or theory instead opting to "call on sensory details, movements, emotions, dialogue, and scene setting to convey an experience of taking care of a parent."<ref name="Adams2015" />
The examples included above are incomplete. Autoethnographers exploring different narrative structures can be seen in Andrew Herrmann's use of layered accounts, [[Carolyn Ellis|Ellis']] use of [[haibun]], and the use of autoethnographic film by Rebecca Long and Anne Harris.

Addressing veracity and the art of story telling in his 2019 autoethnographic monograph ''Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture'', [[Stefano Bloch]] writes "I do rely on artful rendering, but not artistic license."<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo26835013.html | title=Going All City | publisher=University of Chicago Press }}</ref>