Fields of play : constructing an academic life
How do the specific circumstances in which we write affect what we write? How does what we write affect who we become? How can we maintain professional and personal integrity in today's university? In a series of traditional and experimental writings, a culmination of ten years of works-in-progress, Laurel Richardson records an intellectual journey, displacing boundaries and creating new ways of reading and writing. Applying the sociological imagination to the writing process, she connects her life to her work. Deeply engaging, movingly written with grace, elegance, and clarity, the book stimulates readers to situate their own writing in personal, social, and political contexts
Print Book, English, ©1997
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., ©1997
Biography
xi, 255 pages ; 24 cm
9780813523781, 9780813523798, 0813523788, 0813523796
34617808
Forewords: Authority
The collective story
Forewords: Palimpsest
Narrative knowing and sociological telling
Forewords: Something wonderful
Value-constituting practices, rhetoric, and metaphor
Forewords: Erasure fights
Speakers whose voices matter
The sea monster: An ethnographic drama
Afterwords: Coauthoring "The sea monster"
Resisting resistance narratives: A representation for communication
Afterwords: Trying community
Forewords: Belonging
Writing matters
Forewords: Good catch
Trash on the corner: Ethnics and ethnography
Afterwords: Replay
Forewords: Backhand
Postmodern social theory: Representational practices
Afterwords: Left field
Louisa May's story of her life
Afterwords: "Louisa May" and me
Forewords: Synchronicity
The poetic representation of lives
Forewords: The truth of consequences
Consequences of poetic representation: Writing the other, rewriting the self
Poetics, dramatics, and transgressive validity: "The case of the skipped line"
Afterwords: Families
Forewords: " ... and feel most braced ..."
Marriage and the family: nine poems
Afterwords: Sacred spaces
Forewords: Speech lessons
Educational birds
Afterwords: Are you my alma mater?
Vespers
References
Indexes