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9780415151986

Narrative and Genre

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415151986

  • ISBN10:

    0415151988

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-01-27
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Narrative and Genredraws on a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities to examine how far the expectations and forms of genre shape different kinds of autobiography and influence what messages they can convey.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors xi(2)
Introduction to the series xiii(3)
Acknowledgements xvi
1 INTRODUCTION Genre and narrative in life stories
1(22)
Mary Chamberlain
Paul Thompson
2 ORAL HISTORY AS GENRE
23(23)
Alessandro Portelli
3 SILENCES The case of a psychiatric hospital
46(17)
Diana Gittins
4 A BRAZILIAN WORKER'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN AN UNEXPECTED FORM Interweaving the interview and the novel
63(18)
Jose Sergio Leite Lopes
Rosilene Alvim
5 FAMILY FABLES
81(18)
Chris Mann
6 ANECDOTE AS NARRATIVE RESOURCE IN WORKING-CLASS LIFE STORIES Parody, dramatization and sequence
99(15)
T.G. Ashplant
7 MY LIFE AS CONSUMER Narratives from the world of goods
114(12)
Orvar Lofgren
8 DISTANT HOMES, OUR GENRE Recognizing Chinese lives as an anthropologist
126(16)
Stephen Feuchtwang
9 THE ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW IN A CROSS-CULTURAL SETTING An analysis of its linguistic, social and ideological structure
142(18)
Yvette J. Kopijn
10 IN THE ARCHIVE, IN THE FIELD What kind of document is an `oral history'?
160(7)
Kathryn Marie Dudley
11 SHARING AND RESHAPING LIFE STORIES Problems and potential in archiving research narratives
167(15)
Paul Thompson
RAPHAEL SAMUEL An appreciation
182(9)
Jerry White
RAPHAEL SAMUEL A select bibliography
191(2)
A call for contributions 193(3)
Index 196

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