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Alive in the writing : crafting ethnography in the company of Chekhov / Kirin Narayan.

By: Narayan, Kirin.
Publisher: Chicago, CA : University of Chicago Press, 2012Description: xiii, 154 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780226568195 (pbk.); 9780226568188 (hbk.); 0226568199 (pbk.); 0226568180 (hbk.).Subject(s): Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 -- Criticism and interpretation | Ethnology -- Authorship | Creative nonfiction -- Authorship | Ethnology in literatureDDC classification: 305.8
Contents:
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 scene 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.
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 305.8 NAR 2012 (Browse shelf) 1 Available TDSxx,29006,02,GR 5000130341

Includes bibliographical references and index.

(1) 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 -- (2) Place. The scene 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 -- (3) Person. Types and individuals ; The embodied person ; Lives told by things ; Inner biography ; Nonhuman persons ; Imagining across time -- (4) 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 -- (5) Self. Narrating ; Explaining ; Evoking ; Transforming ; Reframing ; Connecting -- Postscript : writing to be alive -- Using this book -- Further inspiration : helpful books on writing.