Narrative Conscience and the Autoethnographic Adventure

Probing Memories, Secrets, Shadows, and Possibilities

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7364686
AutoresC N Poulos (0000-0002-0231-6004, autor correspondente)
Ano2007
Volume14
Fascículo1
Páginas46-66
Data de publicação2007-11-27
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1077800407308916
OpenAlexW2133245012
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas24
Referências citadas6

This article explores the common practice in families of keeping secrets close, allowing them to develop a life of their own. The problem with this practice is that the secrets often won't stay put, emerging into everyday life as (sometimes unwelcome) interruptions in the flow of healthy living. Indeed, secrets and memories—if they remain untold stories—may, at times, be crippling. In this article, the author discusses the process of storying family secrets as a way to engage personal and family healing. In the writing of autoethnographic research, the relationship between the researcher and his or her significant others becomes a primary locus of ethical action. Relational research ethics, informed by narrative conscience, calls the researcher to embrace new layers of complexity in the search for the right story, written with care, while offering narrative and dialogic methodologies for dealing with the dilemmas that come with the territory

Action (physics · Adventure · Aesthetics · Art · Autoethnography · Conscience · Dialogic · Life writing · Literature · Narrative · Narrative inquiry · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · History · Law · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics