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9780312115111

Reading the Lives of Others : A Sequence for Writers

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312115111

  • ISBN10:

    0312115113

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1994-11-15
  • Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary

A briefer, less expensive version of the innovativeWays of Readingthis cultural studies reader includes 6 rich, lengthy, and demanding readings (by Clifford Geetz, Harriet Brent Jacobs, and Joyce Carol Oates, among others) and an Assignment Sequence.

Table of Contents

Preface v
Introduction
1(16)
Making a Mark
1(3)
Ways of Reading
4(3)
Strong Readers, Strong Texts
7(2)
Reading with and against the Grain
9(1)
Reading and Writing: The Questions and Assignments
10(7)
Readings
17(226)
Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight
20(42)
Clifford Geertz
[From Interpretation of Cultures]
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
62(45)
Harriet (Brent) Jacobs
[Selections From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl]
Closing the Frontier and Opening Western History
107(12)
Patricia Nelson Limerick
Empire of Innocence
119(20)
[From The Legacy of Conquest]
Theft (Fiction)
139(41)
Joyce Carol Oates
[From Marya: A Life]
Arts of the Contact Zone
180(21)
Mary Louise Pratt
[First Appeared in Profession 91]
Our Time
201(42)
John Edgar Wideman
[From Brothers and Keepers]
Assignment Sequence
243(2)
WORKING WITH THE ASSIGNMENT SEQUENCE 245(4)
ASSIGNMENT SEQUENCE History and Ethnography: Reading the Lives of Others 249(8)
1. Ethnography: Reading Culture
250(1)
Geertz
2. History: Reading the Past
251(1)
Limerick
3. Imagined Landscapes
252(1)
Oates
4. Life Stories
253(1)
Wideman
Geertz
Limerick
Oates
5. Revision
254(1)
Geertz
Limerick
Oates
Wideman
6. Autoethnography: Engaging Others
254(1)
Pratt
Jacobs
7. Reading and Writing in the ``Contact Zone''
255(2)
Pratt
8. Revision (again)
257
Geertz
Limerick
Oates
Wideman
Jacobs
Pratt

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