Artículos relacionados a Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company...

Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov - Tapa blanda

Narayan, Kirin

 
9780226568195: Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10: 0226568199 ISBN 13: 9780226568195
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2012

Sinopsis

Anton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer—but he wrote more than just plays and stories. In Alive in the Writing—an intriguing hybrid of writing guide, biography, and literary analysis—anthropologist and novelist Kirin Narayan introduces readers to some other sides of Chekhov: his pithy, witty observations on the writing process, his life as a writer through accounts by his friends, family, and lovers, and his venture into nonfiction through his book Sakhalin Island. By closely attending to the people who lived under the appalling conditions of the Russian penal colony on Sakhalin, Chekhov showed how empirical details combined with a literary flair can bring readers face to face with distant, different lives, enlarging a sense of human responsibility.

Highlighting this balance of the empirical and the literary, Narayan calls on Chekhov to bring new energy to the writing of ethnography and creative nonfiction alike. Weaving together selections from writing by and about him with examples from other talented ethnographers and memoirists, she offers practical exercises and advice on topics such as story, theory, place, person, voice, and self. A new and lively exploration of ethnography, Alive in the Writing shows how the genre’s attentive, sustained connection with the lives of others can become a powerful tool for any writer.

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Acerca del autor

Kirin Narayan is the author of Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels; Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon; the novel Love, Stars, and All That; and the memoir My Family and Other Saints, published by the University of Chicago Press. A former Guggenheim fellow, she is professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0226568199
ISBN 13 
9780226568195
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
168
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
no disponible