Borderland Journeys: A Layered Autoethnography

The collection of pages spread before you now, this story-thesis, is a collection of stories about my journey from cult member to the place in life I am now, stories about those stories, and stories about the people who lived or read them, talked about them, and were changed by the tellings. Most importantly, the goal of this story-thesis is to illustrate how the process of story-making and -telling changes how we interpret our identities and our lifeworlds. I argue that the stories that we share change our identities, and I also argue that how we perceive our identity and the identities of others affects the stories that we share.

Author dc:creator

• Bankert-Countryman, Janice Elizabeth

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Goering, Elizabeth M.

• Autoethnography
• Coordinated Management of Meaning
• Heteroglossia
• A/r/tography
• Stage Theory of Grief
• Symbolic Divergence
• Dialogic Autoethnography

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Identifier URI

http://dx.doi.org/10.7912/C2/457

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.indianapolis.iu.edu:1805/4024