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Listening For A Life A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories / Patricia Sawin. [print]

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Logan : Utah State University Press, [(c)2004.; Baltimore, Maryland : Project MUSE, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780874215007
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GR55.E53 S295 2004
  • GR55.E53.S271.L578 2004
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Contents:
Introduction : dialogism and subjectivity ; -- "That was before I ever left home" : complex accounts of a simple childhood ; -- "If you had to work as hard as I did, it would kill you" : work, narrative, and self-definition ; -- "I said, 'don't you do it'" : tracing development as an empowered speaker through reported speech in narrative ; -- "He never did say anything about my dreams that would worry me after that" : negotiating gender and power in ghost stories ; -- "I'm a bad one to go pulling jokes on people" : practical joking as a problematic vehicle for oppositional self-definition ; -- "My singing is my life" : repertoire and performance-- Epilogue.
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Introduction : dialogism and subjectivity ; -- "That was before I ever left home" : complex accounts of a simple childhood ; -- "If you had to work as hard as I did, it would kill you" : work, narrative, and self-definition ; -- "I said, 'don't you do it'" : tracing development as an empowered speaker through reported speech in narrative ; -- "He never did say anything about my dreams that would worry me after that" : negotiating gender and power in ghost stories ; -- "I'm a bad one to go pulling jokes on people" : practical joking as a problematic vehicle for oppositional self-definition ; -- "My singing is my life" : repertoire and performance-- Epilogue.

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