Amy Shuman

Other People's Stories

Entitlement Claims and the Critique of Empathy

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In Other People's Stories, Amy Shuman examines the social relations embedded in stories and the complex ethical and social tensions that surround their telling. Drawing on innovative research and contemporary theory, she describes what happens when one person's story becomes another person's source of inspiration, or when entitlement and empathy collide. The resulting analyses are wonderfully diverse, integrating narrative studies, sociolinguistics, communications, folklore, and ethnographic studies to examine the everyday, conversational stories told by cultural groups including Latinas, Jews, African Americans, Italians, and Puerto Ricans.… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-252-07774-6
EAN: 9780252077746
Produktnummer: 7714377
Verlag: University of Illinois Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 200 S.
Masse: H15.3 cm x B22.8 cm x D2.5 cm 322 g
Gewicht: 322
Sonstiges: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Über den Autor

Amy Shuman is a professor of English, anthropology, and women's studies at the Ohio State University. She is the author of Storytelling Rights: The Uses of Oral and Written Texts Among Urban Adolescents