Abstract
This article engages Carolyn Ellis’ (2004) The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography and Ronald J. Pelias’ (2004) A Methodology of the Heart: Evoking Academic and Daily Life. Reflections on these texts show them to be timely and vulnerable cultural resources, which uniquely speak to the joys and challenges of doing autoethnography and other especially reflexive qualitative inquiry. Ellis and Pelias, along with Calvin O. Schrag's (1986) hermeneutic phenomenological position arguing that human subjects are implicated within the dynamic and subjective realms of “communicative praxis” (the thoughtful and emotional doing of communication), prompt an additional examination in which I describe several, interdependent dimensions of subjectivity associated with the community of ethnographers who foreground ourselves in ethnographic research. The portrait I sketch proposes how we readily perform as historical/historicizing, processing, breaching, contested, unapologetic, and hopeful selves.
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