Theoretical analysis explores narrative ethics in ethnographic research, suggesting nocturnal writing attunes researchers to opacity and interlocutor absence.
What ethical considerations accompany the storying of an other's fragments of life? Thinking with Édouard Glissant and Mahmoud Darwish, I suggest writing into the night to displace the regular activity of writing and to deliberately attune oneself to the complications of ethnographic opacity and the present absence of our interlocutors.
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