Listening For A Life A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories /

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Main Author: Sawin, Patricia
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan : Utah State University Press, c2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of 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.