Other People's Stories
Subtitle: Entitlement Claims and the Critique of Empathy
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: April 25, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780252029639
Subjects: Literary theory; Semantics (meaning); Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language; Linguistics; Communication; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Folklore & Mythology; Discourse analysis, Narrative
Description: "In Other People's Stories, Amy Shuman examines the social relations embedded in stories and the complex ethical and social tensions that surround their telling. Drawing on innovative research and contemporary theory, she describes what happens when one person's story becomes another person's source of inspiration, or when entitlement and empathy collide." "The resulting analyses in Other People's Stories are diverse, integrating narrative studies, sociaolinguistics, communications, folklore, and ethnographic studies to examine the everyday conversational stories told by cultural groups including Latinas, Jews, African Americans, Italians, and Puerto Ricans."--BOOK JACKET.