On (Writing) Families Autoethnographies of Presence and Absence, Lov
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,
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On (Writing) Families Autoethnographies of Presence and Absence, Love and Loss
Edited by Jonathan Wyatt The University of Edinburgh, UK and Tony E. Adams Northeastern Illinois University, USA
SENSE PUBLISHERS ROTTERDAM / BOSTON / TAIPEI
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
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1. Introduction Jonathan Wyatt and Tony E. Adams
1
2. Fatherly Love Mort Mather
7
3. Always Strange: Transforming Loss Stacy Holman Jones
13
4. On Gratitude, for My Father Craig Gingrich-Philbrook
23
5. Confessions of a Feminist Mother Raising a Preteen Daughter Patricia Leavy
31
6. Roses and Grime: Tattoos, Texts, and Failure Desirée Rowe
37
7. What’s in a Name? Secrets, Haunting, and Family Ties Liz Bondi
43
8. From Absence to Presence: Finding Mother, Ever Again Mark Freeman
49
9. Corporeal Kinship: Dancing the Entanglements of Love and Loss Beatrice Allegranti
57
10. Ghost-Child Anne M. Harris
69
11. Living Places Jeannie Wright
77
12. My Daddy is Slick, Brown, and Cool Like Ice Water Robin M. Boylorn
85
13. The Ghostwriter: Living a Father’s Unfinished Narrative Andrew F. Herrmann
95
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14. Going Home Kitrina Douglas
103
15. Dying in the Care of the NHS: Fragments from a Daughter’s Love Song for Her Father Jane Speedy
115
16. Temporary Blindness Gunnhildur Una Jonsdottir
123
17. Bedtime Stories Sophie Tamas
131
18. After Dinners, in the Garage, Out of Doors, and Climbing on Rocks: Writing Aesthetic Moments of Father-Son Derek M. Bolen
141
19. Ties that Bind, Ties that Scar Tony E. Adams and Jonathan Wyatt
149
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We are grateful to the contributors of this collection—without them, this book would not exist. Their enthusiasm, openness and all-round brilliance have been wonderful to work with. We would also like to thank Tony Colon for his help with editing this manuscript, and to Peter de Liefde for his support as well as the opportunity and honor to publish with Sense Publishers. Jonathan I thank the various people around me who have (whether they know it or not) helped sustain me during mine and Tony’s work on this book over the past two years. Their contributions to my life, as well as to this collaborative enterprise, are incalculable. Tony gets the first mention. He has to. His consistently c
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