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

Author/creator Sawin, Patricia
Other author Project Muse.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLogan : Utah State University Press, ©2004. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Description1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages :) : illustrations (some color) ;
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 229-240) and index.
Source of descriptionDescription based on print version record.
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2004004974
ISBN9780874215007

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