Exo-Autoethnography: writing and research on transgenerational transmission of trauma

Denejkina, A

Exo-Autoethnography: writing and research on transgenerational transmission of trauma

Denejkina, A

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Publisher:: The Australasian Association Of Writing Programs
Publication Type:: Conference Proceeding
Citation:: Authorised Theft: Writing, Scholarship, Collaboration Papers – The Refereed Proceedings Of The 21st Conference Of The Australasian Association Of Writing Programs, 2016, Canberra AUS, 2017, 21 pp. 1 - 10 (10)
Issue Date:: 2017-03-01

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dc.contributor.author	Denejkina, A https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4474-7192	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Fanaiyan, N	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Franks, R	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Seymour, J	en_US
dc.date	2016-11-28	en_US
dc.date.available	2016-12-01	en_US
dc.date.issued	2017-03-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Authorised Theft: Writing, Scholarship, Collaboration Papers – The Refereed Proceedings Of The 21st Conference Of The Australasian Association Of Writing Programs, 2016, Canberra AUS, 2017, 21 pp. 1 - 10 (10)	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-9876205-0-7	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/91752
dc.description.abstract	Since the late 1970s, autoethnographic research and writing has demonstrated that non-fiction creative writing practice can utilise this alternate-ethnographic method as part of its research and narrative, producing rigorous creative work which is palatable both by the academy and the general audience: bringing social science closer to literature. This paper proposes a new autoethnographic method of research and writing I am calling exo-autoethnography: a distinct ethnographic method of qualitative research within non-fiction creative, and autoethnographic writing, that deals with transgenerational transmission of familial trauma. Exo- autoethnography is an approach to research that seeks to analyse individual and private experience as directed by the other’s experience or history to better understand: 1. A history that impacted the researcher by proxy; and 2. Personal and community experience as related to that history. Exo-autoethnography is the autoethnographic exploration of a history whose events the researcher (author) did not experience directly, but a history that impacted the researcher through familial, or other personal connections. Placing focus on a history that impacted the self (author) by proxy, the method aims to connect the present with a history of the other through transgenerational transmission of trauma and/or experiences of an upbringing influenced by parental trauma.	en_US
dc.publisher	The Australasian Association Of Writing Programs	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Authorised Theft: Writing, Scholarship, Collaboration Papers – The Refereed Proceedings Of The 21st Conference Of The Australasian Association Of Writing Programs, 2016, Canberra AUS	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Authorised Theft: 21st Annual Australasian Association of Writing Programs	en_US
dc.title	Exo-Autoethnography: writing and research on transgenerational transmission of trauma	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.citation.volume	21	en_US
utslib.location	Canberra, Australia	en_US
utslib.location.activity	University of Canberra	en_US
utslib.for	1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Social and Political Sciences Program
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pubs.finish-date	2016-11-30	en_US
pubs.place-of-publication	Canberra, Australia	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published online	en_US
pubs.start-date	2016-11-28	en_US
pubs.volume	21	en_US

Abstract:

Since the late 1970s, autoethnographic research and writing has demonstrated that non-fiction creative writing practice can utilise this alternate-ethnographic method as part of its research and narrative, producing rigorous creative work which is palatable both by the academy and the general audience: bringing social science closer to literature. This paper proposes a new autoethnographic method of research and writing I am calling exo-autoethnography: a distinct ethnographic method of qualitative research within non-fiction creative, and autoethnographic writing, that deals with transgenerational transmission of familial trauma. Exo- autoethnography is an approach to research that seeks to analyse individual and private experience as directed by the other’s experience or history to better understand: 1. A history that impacted the researcher by proxy; and 2. Personal and community experience as related to that history. Exo-autoethnography is the autoethnographic exploration of a history whose events the researcher (author) did not experience directly, but a history that impacted the researcher through familial, or other personal connections. Placing focus on a history that impacted the self (author) by proxy, the method aims to connect the present with a history of the other through transgenerational transmission of trauma and/or experiences of an upbringing influenced by parental trauma.

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