The Qualitative Inquiry Reader

by Norman K. Denzin

• ISBN13: 9780761924920
• ISBN10: 0761924922
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-05
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc

Summary

New from award winning editors Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln, The Qualitative Inquiry Reader offers the best of the popular SAGE journal, Qualitative Inquiry. These collected works aim to introduce the necessary critical framework that will allow scholars and students scholars to interpret cutting edge work in the field of qualitative inquiry. By providing this framework, readers will then be able to use this work as it applies to critical political and moral discourses. Features: The book includes examples from across the behavioral and social sciences Reader is divided into five sections: Reflexive Ethnography, Autoethnography, Poetics, Performance Narratives, Assessing the Text These sections reflect the ways in which contemporary researchers have implemented the narrative turn in their writing Contains cutting-edge work by top scholars in the field Introduces students and scholars to whata??s new in the field of qualitative inquiry

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Norman K. Denzin
Yvonna S. Lincoln
PART ONE: Reflexive Ethnography	1	(70)
Research as Relationship	5	(20)
Deborah Ceglowski
Three Short Stories	25	(14)
Christopher Dunbar, Jr.
Skirting a Pleated Text: De-Disciplining an Academic Life	39	(12)
Laurel Richardson
Circling the Text: Nomadic Writing Practices	51	(20)
Elizabeth Adams St.Pierre
PART TWO: Autoethnography	71	(84)
Discovering My Mother as the Other in the Saturday Evening Post	73	(18)
Elena Tajima Creef
This I Know: An Exploration of Remembering Childhood and Knowing Now	91	(14)
Jean Halley
The Next Night Sous Rature: Wrestling with Derrida's Mimesis	105	(20)
Carol Rambo Ronai
On Becoming Italian American: An Autobiography of an Ethnic Identity	125	(30)
Richard V. Travisano
PART THREE: Poetics	155	(26)
A Gift of the Journey	157	(2)
Ivan Brady
Two Microethnographies	159	(4)
Mark Nowak
The Anthro in Cali	163	(4)
Miles Richardson
Windows	167	(14)
Mary E. Weems
PART FOUR: Performance Narratives	181	(48)
Torch	185	(32)
Stacy Holman Jones
Always Dying: Living Between Da and Fort	217	(12)
Ronald J. Pelias
PART FIVE: Assessing the Text	229	(148)
Negotiated Validity in Collaborative Ethnography	233	(24)
Linda Liska Belgrave
Kenneth J. Smith
Criteria Against Ourselves	257	(10)
Arthur P. Bochner
Writing the ``Wrongs'' of Fieldwork: Confronting Our Own Research/Writing Dilemmas in Urban Ethnographies	267	(32)
Michelle Fine
Lois Weis
The Social Construction of Validity	299	(28)
Steinar Kvale
Emerging Criteria for Quality in Qualitative and Interpretive Research	327	(20)
Yvonna S. Lincoln
Confronting Anthropology's Silencing Praxis: Speaking Of/From a Chicana Consciousness	347	(30)
Monica Russel y Rodriguez
Afterword	377	(2)
Norman K. Denzin
Yvonna S. Lincoln
Sources	379	(2)
Name Index	381	(5)
Subject Index	386	(7)
About the Editors	393	(2)
About the Contributors	395