Critical autoethnography : intersecting cultural identities in everyday life / [edited by] Robin M. Boylorn, Mark P. Orbe ; [foreword by] Carolyn Ellis ; [foreword by] Arthur P. Bochner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series Editor's Foreword: Merging Culture and Personal Experience in Critical Autoethnography / Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P. Bochner -- Introduction: Cultural Autoethnography as Method of Choice / Robin M. Boylorn and Mark P. Orbe -- Section I. Complicating Mundane Everyday Life Encounters: -- Chapter 1. The Transitory Radical: Making Place with Cancer / Jeanine M. Mingé and John Burton Sterner -- Chapter 2. Negating the Inevitable: An Autoethnographic Analysis of First-Generation College Student Status / Tabatha L. Roberts -- Chapter 3. Post-Coming Out Complications / Tony E. Adams -- Section II. Embracing Ambiguous and Nonbinary Identities: -- Chapter 4. Negotiating More, (Mis)labeling the Body: A Tale of Intersectionality / Amber L. Johnson -- Chapter 5. Performing Fortune Cookie: An Autoethnographic Performance on Diasporic Hybridity / Richie Neil Hao -- Chapter 6. Critical Autoethnography as Intersectional Praxis: A Performative Pedagogical Interplay on Bleeding Borders of Identity / Bryant Keith Alexander -- Section III. Negotiating Socially Stigmatized Identities: -- Chapter 7. A Story & A Stereotype: An Angry and Strong Auto/ethnography or Race, Class, and Gender / Robin M. Boylorn -- Chapter 8. Caught in Code: Arab American Identity, Image, and Lived Reality / Desiree Yomtoob -- Chapter 9. Lather, Rinse, Reclaim: Cultural (Re)Conditioning of the Gay (Bear) Body / Patrick Santoro -- Chapter 10. The (Dis)ability Double Life: Exploring the Legitimacy, Illegitimacy, and the Terrible Dichotomy of (Dis)Ability in Higher Education / Dana Morella-Pozzi -- Section IV. Creating Pathways to Authentic Selves: -- Chapter 11. Socioeconomic Im(Mobility): Resisting Classifications Within a 'Post-Projects' Identity / Mark P. Orbe -- Chapter 12. Mindful Heresy, Holo-expression, and Poiesis: An Autoethnographic Response to the Orthodoxies of Interpersonal & Cultural Life / Sarah Amira de la Garza -- Chapter 13. Favor: An Autoethnography of Survival / Rex L. Crawley -- Conclusion: Critical Autoethnography: Implications & Future Directions / Mark P. Orbe and Robin M. Boylorn.

"This volume uses autoethnography--cultural analysis through personal narrative--to explore the tangled relationships between culture and communication. Using an intersectional approach to the many aspects of identity at play in everyday life, a diverse group of authors reveals the complex nature of lived experiences. They situate interpersonal experiences of gender, race, ethnicity, ability, and orientation within larger systems of power, oppression, and social privilege. An excellent resource for undergraduates, graduate students, educators, and scholars in the fields of intercultural and interpersonal communication, and qualitative methodology"-- Provided by publisher.