From the inside out: surrender, ancestral work, and writing as transformation
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Keywords: writing, black geographies, method
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Ashanté M. Reese, The University of Texas at Austin
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This paper takes an autoethnographic approach to examining writing as a practice of surrender and ancestral relationship building. Rather than simply reflecting on writing as method, I examine the ways that writing as a form of surrender and ancestral practice is a process that transforms both the writing and the writer from the inside out, blurring the lines between the studied and the person doing the studying. This paper takes up notions of “outsider” and “ethical distance” to explore the question: what is (im) possible when outsiderness is rejected and the only ethical distance from which to write is up close?
From the inside out: surrender, ancestral work, and writing as transformation
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