Listening For A Life : A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories /
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Logan :
Utah State University Press,
2004.
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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.