Alive in the writing
Subtitle: crafting ethnography in the company of Chekhov
By: Kirin Narayan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780226568188; 9780226568195
Subjects: Authorship; Ethnology; Criticism and interpretation; Creative nonfiction; Ethnology in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Story and theory. Taking stock: parts and wholes ; Looking back: the power of first impressions ; Scenes, summaries, events ; Situation, story, theory ; Chekhov as ethnographic muse; title: Place. The place of writing ; Passage to more than a place ; The feel of a place ; Others' perceptions ; Landscapes transformed ; Wide angles and close-ups ; Painful places ; The meeting place of texts; title: Person. Types and individuals ; The embodied person ; Lives told by things ; Inner biography ; Nonhuman persons ; Imagining across time; title: Voice. How voices sound ; Key words, key concepts ; Transcribing conversation and performance ; Quotation and paraphrase ; Pauses, guarded words, words in veiled forms ; Cultivating your own voice; title: Self. Narrating ; Explaining ; Evoking ; Transforming ; Reframing ; Connecting ; Postscript writing to be alive; title: Using this book; title: Further inspiration: helpful books on writing.