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    11/19: Models of Autoethnographic Writing

    Today, we’ll look at Tiffany Rainey’s autoethnography “Her Own Voice: Coming Out in Academia with Bipolar Disorder.” CONTENT ALERT: This text mentions suicidal ideation. Individual Writing Rainey writes about her experience with bipolar disorder, how her symptoms manifested and made her feel, hiding her mental health struggle, and the process of ultimately understanding her diagnosis. Access Rainey’s text and the in-class writing you started last time. Write in response to the following: Sharing as a Large Group Pick one sentence of your in-class writing to share with the whole class. After our round-robin style sharing, we’ll revisit our collaborative definition of autoethnography. How do Inayatulla’s and Rainey’s texts fit our definition?…

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    11/14: Building Our Definition of Autoethnography

    Today, we’ll continue to look at Inayatulla’s autoethnography “Literate Vixens and Shameless Hijabis” in an effort to build our collaborative definition of autoethnography. I want to start with George’s question from Tuesday about race, specifically considering what is Inayatulla doing with the image of the ape that reoccurs throughout this piece. Alongside Inayatulla’s essay, please have Jackson & Grutsch McKinney’s “Critical Introduction” pulled up on your device and opened to page 11. After we do some close reading as a large group, you will pick a paragraph (either on page 50-51 or 55) that we quickly looked at together and write in response to the following questions: Hold on to…