Goering, Elizabeth M.Bankert-Countryman, Janice ElizabethDobris, Catherine A.Rhodes, NancyParrish-Sprowl, John2014-02-252014-02-252014-02-25https://hdl.handle.net/1805/4024http://dx.doi.org/10.7912/C2/457Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)The collection of pages spread before you now, this story-thesis, is a collection of stories about my journey from cult member to the place in life I am now, stories about those stories, and stories about the people who lived or read them, talked about them, and were changed by the tellings. Most importantly, the goal of this story-thesis is to illustrate how the process of story-making and -telling changes how we interpret our identities and our lifeworlds. I argue that the stories that we share change our identities, and I also argue that how we perceive our identity and the identities of others affects the stories that we share.en-USAutoethnographyCoordinated Management of MeaningHeteroglossiaA/r/tographyStage Theory of GriefSymbolic DivergenceDialogic AutoethnographyEthnology -- Authorship -- Research -- EvaluationEthnology -- Biographical methodsEthnology -- MethodologyIdentity (Psychology) -- Social aspectsDiscourse analysisCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.)Communication -- PhilosophySelf-perceptionDialogue analysisAnzaldúa, Gloria. BorderlandsMcCourt, Frank. Angela's ashesPostmodernism (Literature) -- Research -- EvaluationCriticismInterpersonal communication -- Analysis -- EvaluationBakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975Thesis