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 professsional 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...
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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.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Forewords: Authority9The Collective Story12Forewords: Palimpsest23Narrative Knowing and Sociological Telling28Forewords: Something Wonderful36Value-Constituting Practices, Rhetoric, and Metaphor39Forewords: Erasure Fights50Speakers Whose Voices Matter52The Sea Monster: An Ethnographic Drama63Afterwords: Coauthoring "The Sea Monster"68Resisting Resistance Narratives: A Representation for Communication75Afterwords: Trying Community80Forewords: Belonging84Writing Matters86Forewords: Good Catch99Trash on the Corner: Ethnics and Ethnography102Afterwords: Replay116Forewords: Backhand119Postmodern Social Theory: Representational Practices120Afterwords: Left Field123Louisa May's Story of Her Life131Afterwords: "Louisa May" and Me135Forewords: Synchronicity138The Poetic Representation of Lives139Forewords: The Truth of Consequences145Consequences of Poetic Representation: Writing the Other, Rewriting the Self147Poetics, Dramatics, and Transgressive Validity: "The Case of the Skipped Line"154Afterwords: Families168Forewords: "... And Feel Most Braced ..."173Marriage and the Family: Nine Poems175Afterwords: Sacred Spaces183Forewords: Speech Lessons188Educational Birds197Afterwords: Are You My Alma Mater?208Vespers217References239Indexes249
