Browsing by Author "Bankert-Countryman, Janice Elizabeth"

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    Borderland Journeys: A Layered Autoethnography
    (2014-02-25) Bankert-Countryman, Janice Elizabeth; Goering, Elizabeth M.; Dobris, Catherine A.; Rhodes, Nancy; Parrish-Sprowl, John
    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.