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Whenresearch is so connected to personal interest, experience, and familiarity thatobjectivity becomes a moveable feast,the line between documentation and invention blurs to near-invisibility. JohnFreeman asks what it means to locate oneselfinto research findings and narrative reports, and what happens when one's selfgoes further and becomes theresearch. Subjecting received truths to a series of hard questions, readers are taken on a journey through self-performance; traumatic memoir; the lure of weasel words; emotionalevocation; the vagaries of memory; creative nonfiction; cultural appropriation;illusion masquerading as truth and the complex ethics of universityresearch. Case studies from internationalautoethnographers run through the book and appendices provide invaluable adviceto university researchers and supervisors. The result is a work that sheds newlight on forms of narrative research that connect writers' personal stories tothe participatory cultures under investigation.