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Author Narayan, Kirin.
Title Alive in the writing : crafting ethnography in the company of Chekhov / Kirin Narayan.
Publication Info Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2012.


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Descript xiii, 154 p. ; 22 cm.
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 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.
ISBN 9780226568195
0226568199
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Author Narayan, Kirin.
Subject Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904
Ethnology -- Authorship.
Creative nonfiction -- Authorship.
Ethnology in literature.
Descript xiii, 154 p. ; 22 cm.
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 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.
ISBN 9780226568195
0226568199
Author Narayan, Kirin.
Subject Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904
Ethnology -- Authorship.
Creative nonfiction -- Authorship.
Ethnology in literature.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  GN307.7 .N37 2012  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904
Ethnology -- Authorship.
Creative nonfiction -- Authorship.
Ethnology in literature.
Descript xiii, 154 p. ; 22 cm.
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 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.
ISBN 9780226568195
0226568199
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