Storytelling Rights The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by Urban Adolescents [Paperback]

Based on intensive fieldwork in an urban American junior high school, this original study explores the relationship between oral and written texts in everyday life.Based on intensive fieldwork in an urban American junior high school, this original study explores the relationship between oral and written texts in everyday life by analyzing tellings and retellings of local events, diaries, writings and discussions.Based on intensive fieldwork in an urban American junior high school, this original study explores the relationship between oral and written texts in everyday life by analyzing tellings and retellings of local events, diaries, writings and discussions.Based on intensive fieldwork in an urban American junior high school, this original study explores the relationship between oral and written texts in everyday life by analysing tellings and retellings of local events, diaries, writings and discussions.Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Fight stories: what counts is the recounting; 2. Storyability and tellability; 3. Collaborative uses of literacy in the adolescent community; 4. Retellings; 5. Varieties of contextuality; 6. Familiarity and distance: toward a theory of oral and written personal narration; Notes; Bibliography; Index.