[ecrea] New Book Announcement: On (Writing) Families

New Book Announcement
On (Writing) Families: Autoethnographies of Presence and Absence, Love 
and Loss

Jonathan Wyatt and I are excited to announce the release of On (Writing) 
Families: Autoethnographies of Presence and Absence, Love and Loss. This 
amazing collection includes essays by Mort Mather, Stacy Holman Jones, 
Craig Gingrich-Philbrook, Patricia Leavy, Desiree Rowe, Liz Bondi, Mark 
Freeman, Beatrice Allegranti, Anne Harris, Jeannie Wright, Robin 
Boylorn, Andrew Herrmann, Kitrina Douglas, Jane Speedy, Gunnhildur Una 
Jonsdottir, Sophie Tamas, and Derek Bolen.

Here's a description of the book: Who are we with—and without—families? 
How do we relate as children to our parents, as parents to our children? 
How are parent-child relationships—and familial relationships in 
general—made and (not) maintained? Informed by narrative, performance 
studies, poststructuralism, critical theory, and queer theory, 
contributors to this collection useautoethnography—a method that uses 
the personal to examine the cultural—to interrogate these questions. The 
essays write about/around issues of interpersonal distance and 
closeness, gratitude and disdain, courage and fear, doubt and certainty, 
openness and secrecy, remembering and forgetting, accountability and 
forgiveness, life and death. Throughout, family relationships are framed 
as relationships that inspire and inform, bind and scar—relationships 
replete with presence and absence, love and loss. An essential text for 
anyone interested in autoethnography, personal narrative, identity, 
relationships, and family communication.

And here's the link to the book: 
https://www.sensepublishers.com/.../on-writing-families/ For a limited 
time, the code "129375" can be used for a 20% discount (on the 
publisher's website). You can also access a free preview of the book 
(Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2).

Many thanks to the contributors to the collection, and to Sense 
Publishers for all of their assistance.

Tony Adams

Northeastern Illinois University



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