Featherless Chickens, Laughing Women and Serious Stories
Author:   Jeannie B. Thomas
Publisher:   University of Virginia Press
ISBN:  

9780813917238


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   30 July 1997
Format:   Hardback
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Interested in preserving her family folklore, Jeannie B. Thomas recorded detailed oral histories from her mother and two grandmothers. While analyzing the tapes of these sessions, she notices the inappropriate laughter often accompanied the retelling of painful stories. In this book, Thomas combines these personal narratives with original scholarship drawing on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Julia Kristeva to uncover meaning behind the startling presence of unconventional laughter in women's histories.

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Author:   Jeannie B. Thomas
Publisher:   University of Virginia Press
Imprint:   University of Virginia Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.562kg
ISBN:  

9780813917238


ISBN 10:   0813917239
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   30 July 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Jeannie B. Thomas is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana State University.

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