Carolyn Ellis, writing about autoethnography, says
...[O]ur goal is to open up conversations about how people live,
rather than close down with a definitive description and analytic statements
about the world as it ‘truly’ exists outside the contingencies of language and
culture. I believe the conversational style of communicating has more
potential to transform and change the world for the better. As a multivoiced
form, conversation offers the possibility of opening hearts and increasing
understanding of difference.
'Analyzing Analytic Autoethnography: An Autopsy', Ellis, Carolyn S.; Bochner, Arthur P., Journal Of Contemporary Ethnography, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 429-449, August 2006, p. 435.
I think my central narrator in the fiction I'm working on may be an autoethnographer, so I'm doing a bit of research into what the hell it is.
