Alive in the Writing

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Alive in the Writing

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ISBN: 9780226568195
作者: Kirin Narayan
出版社: University Of Chicago Press
发行时间: 2012 -3
装订: Paperback
价格: USD 20.00
页数: 168

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Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov

Kirin Narayan   

简介

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 uses 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.

contents

Preface: Alive in the Writing
1 Story and Theory
Taking Stock
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
Acknowledgment
Notes
Readings and References
Index

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