Travels with Ernest: Crossing the Literary/Sociological Divide (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780759105966)

In Travels with Ernest: Crossing the Literary/Sociological Divide, Laurel Richardson and Ernest Lockridge_accomplished sociologist and published novelist_explore the fascinating interplay between literary and ethnographic writing. The exciting result is an intriguing experimental text that simultaneously delves into, reveals, simplifies, and complicates methodologies of writing and conveying experience. Refusing to force their unique voices into one integrated account, the authors_also spouses_explicate their stories in separate narratives and then discuss in transcribed 'free-wheeling' conversations their different constructions of their travels together, travels simultaneously experienced, but recalled and related differently through the filters of distinct professional perceptions, life histories, and interiors. This boundary-crossing text will provide an ideal platform for students and professors interested in understanding and exploring the absorbing complexities and possibilities of ethnographic writing and creative nonfiction.

Author: Laurel Richardson,Ernest Lockridge
ISBN-10: 0759105960
ISBN-13: 9780759105966
Publisher: Altamira Press
Language: English
Published: 04/23/2004
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d