Dear Doctors Bochner and Ellis,
I am writing this email to tell you how reading your book, Evocative Autoethnography: Writing Lives and Telling Stories, has helped my dissertational experiences greatly. As a PhD candidate, I was looking for the best method to narrate my story of English language learning as a process of transnational socialization. I came across your book in the early stages of my methodological readings. I must say, reading it felt like finding water in an oasis of the desert of academic manuscripts. It touched my heart.
As you note, your book offers “a straightforward and systematic treatment of the origins, goals, concepts, genres, methods, aesthetics, ethic and truth conditions of evocative ethnography and narrative inquiry.”1 Along with the foundational knowledge of autoethnography it offered, your book had an encouraging role in including my emotions in my story. Although we have never met in person,...
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