Travels with Ernest Crossing the Literary/Sociological Divide

by Richardson, Laurel; Lockridge, Ernest

• ISBN13: 9780759105966
• ISBN10: 0759105960
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-23
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

In Travels with Ernest: Crossing the Literary/Sociological Divide, Laurel Richardson and Ernest Lockridge_accomplished sociologist and published novelist_explore the fascinating interplay between literary and ethnographic writing. The exciting result is an intriguing experimental text that simultaneously delves into, reveals, simplifies, and complicates methodologies of writing and conveying experience. Refusing to force their unique voices into one integrated account, the authors_also spouses_explicate their stories in separate narratives and then discuss in transcribed 'free-wheeling' conversations their different constructions of their travels together, travels simultaneously experienced, but recalled and related differently through the filters of distinct professional perceptions, life histories, and interiors. This boundary-crossing text will provide an ideal platform for students and professors interested in understanding and exploring the absorbing complexities and possibilities of ethnographic writing and creative nonfiction.

Author Biography

Laurel Richardson is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Visiting Professor of Cultural Studies at The Ohio State University Ernest Lockridge is Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at The Ohio State University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Trail Guide: An Introduction	1	(2)
CHAPTER 1 Death Valley	3	(22)
Death Valley Day	3	(10)
Ernest Lockridge
Ah, Wilderness!	13	(4)
Laurel Richardson
Conversation: Death Valley	17	(8)
Laurel Richardson and Ernest Lockridge
CHAPTER 2 Ireland	25	(50)
All in the Family	25	(10)
Laurel Richardson
Unquiet American	35	(29)
Ernest Lockridge
Conversation: Ireland	64	(11)
Laurel Richardson and Ernest Lockridge
CHAPTER 3 Beirut, Lebanon	75	(16)
City by the Sea	75	(4)
Ernest Lockridge
Laurel in Arabia	79	(4)
Laurel Richardson
Conversation: Beirut	83	(3)
Laurel Richardson and Ernest Lockridge
Meta-Conversation: Beirut	86	(5)
Laurel Richardson and Ernest Lockridge
CHAPTER 4 Copenhagen, Denmark	91	(36)
Lost in the Space	91	(15)
Laurel Richardson
Stranger in a Stranger Land	106	(13)
Ernest Lockridge
Conversation: Copenhagen	119	(8)
Laurel Richardson and Ernest Lockridge
CHAPTER 5 Petrozavodsk, Russia	127	(22)
Out of Russia	127	(9)
Laurel Richardson
To Russia with Love	136	(7)
Ernest Lockridge
Conversation: Russia	143	(6)
Laurel Richardson and Ernest Lockridge
CHAPTER 6 St. Petersburg Beach, Florida	149	(32)
On the Beach	149	(11)
Laurel Richardson
Ernest Goes to Yale	160	(14)
Ernest Lockridge
Conversation: St. Pete Beach	174	(7)
Laurel Richardson and Ernest Lockridge
CHAPTER 7 Sedona, Arizona	181	(32)
Call of the Canyon	181	(9)
Laurel Richardson
Grandson of Paleface	190	(23)
Ernest Lockridge
1996	197	(3)
1997	200	(4)
1998-2002	204	(9)
CHAPTER 8 Worthington, Ohio	213	(26)
Happy Trail-The Movie	213	(26)
Ernest Lockridge and Laurel Richardson
Appendix: How This Book Was Made	239	(8)
Index	247	(10)
About the Authors	257	(2)
Credits	259