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 Info | Logan : Utah State University Press, ©2004. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015) |
| Description | 1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages :) : illustrations (some color) ; |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available: |
| Subjects |
| Series | Book collections on Project MUSE. UNAUTHORIZED |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-240) and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2004004974 |
| ISBN | 9780874215007 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |