Kendred Spirits: an Autoethnographic Account of Composing Closeness Between Bars

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dc.contributorGuyotte, Kelly W.
dc.contributorWilson, Elizabeth K.
dc.contributorFreeman, Lee
dc.contributorSimon, Cassandra E.
dc.contributor.advisorJohnson, Latrise P.
dc.contributor.authorKidd, Briana Gilbert
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-23T14:34:22Z
dc.date.available2021-11-23T14:34:22Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this dissertation is to share an ongoing story of reflection, Love, and growth as acts of creative resistance. Since 2013, my life has been animated by Love for secondary students whose stories continue to shape every aspect of my own. As the pages of this study illustrate, my Spirit has borne witness to the life and literacies of one particular student, Kentrelle Ty'Carter Washington, whose soul—whose story—I consider permanently fused with mine. Though Kentrelle and I are separated by systems and circumstances that would have his story—his humanity, his body, his spirit—and our access to one another erased, our ongoing relationship allows us to resist this erasure as we share, analyze, and expand our own and one another’s embodied literacies through writing. Together, our humanity—both Kentrelle’s and mine—becomes more urgent. Together, we compose closeness. Together, we write ourselves into one another’s worlds. Together, we resist. With/in a critical autoethnographic ontomethodology, the author uses bricolage and storytelling to illustrate and analyze how her relationship with a former student has expanded both of their racial, relational, and reflexive literacies. In other words, this is the ongoing story of the author’s expanding conceptualization of literacies as she and a former student have learned to compose closeness between bars.en_US
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dc.identifier.otherhttp://purl.lib.ua.edu/181506
dc.identifier.otheru0015_0000001_0003945
dc.identifier.otherKidd_alatus_0004D_14628
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/8177
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Alabama Libraries
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dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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dc.rightsAll rights reserved by the author unless otherwise indicated.en_US
dc.subjectautoethnography
dc.subjectincarceration
dc.subjectliteracy
dc.subjectproximity
dc.subjectstorytelling
dc.subjectwriting
dc.titleKendred Spirits: an Autoethnographic Account of Composing Closeness Between Barsen_US
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etdms.degree.departmentUniversity of Alabama. Department of Curriculum and Instruction
etdms.degree.disciplineEducation
etdms.degree.grantorThe University of Alabama
etdms.degree.leveldoctoral
etdms.degree.namePh.D.
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