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Alive in the writing : crafting ethnography in the company of Chekhov
University of Chicago Press 2012 - 1 volume (XIII-154 p.)
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. 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. Person. Types and individuals ; The embodied person ; Lives told by things ; Inner biography ; Nonhuman persons ; ... Imagining across time. 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. Self. Narrating ; Explaining ; Evoking ; Transforming ; Reframing ; Connecting ; Postscript writing to be alive. Using this book. Further inspiration: helpful books on writing. Lire la suite