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Author:   Herb Childress
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780791445785

ISBN 10:   079144578
Pages:   372
Publication Date:   27 April 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Foreword Acknowledgments Preface 1. Woven Stories, Woven Lives 2. Reading Curtisville Part One - Around Town 3. The American Dream 4. The Working Life 5. I Love this Car, Man 6. One Night in Manoa 7. The Dead Zone 8. Birthday at Oyster Beach 9. They're Breaking Up that Old Gang of Mine Part Two - At School 10. Kirk's School Days 11. Free Public Assembly 12. Pay No Attention to that Man Behind the Curtain 13. Take Your Seats, Please 14. The Domain of the Greeks 15. The Passion Pit 16. Convenience Store Orphans Part Three - At Home 17. Negotiations and Boundaries 18. Twelve Rooms 19. The Irrelevant Neighborhood 20. Other People's Houses I: Dad's House 21. Other People's Houses II: Tami's Weekend 22. Other People's Houses III: Julian's House Part Four - After the Fact 23. The Hidden Program of the High School (or Six Metaphors in Search of a Box) 24. A Teenage Acre 25. November 18th, Where Joy was Found 26. Collaborators 27. Rereading Curtisville Notes Bibliography Index

Reviews

"""Childress weaves engaging stories through and around the teenagers whose everyday lives are represented by this book. The power of his narrative resides in part on his ability to raise profound issues from seemingly mundane occurrences. He avoids over-theorizing the teenagers' experiences and yet, at the same time, he is able to highlight their senses of self and place in the world. And the awful context that surfaces from his stories is that these teenagers are, for the most part, betrayed by our adult world (how it is planned, designed, and institutionalized) and the society (family, home, and community) we embrace."" - Stuart C. Aitken, author of Family Fantasies and Community Space ""Our social and physical environments are a mess. Teenagers are sorely neglected, and Childress conveys the feeling that there is much that could so easily be done if we weren't so 'bloody fearful' about life. Educators, planners, designers, and parents should all read this book."" - Douglas D. Paterson, University of British Columbia ""Childress is a good storyteller; the dialogue and the vignettes are compelling and evocative."" - Lynn Paxson, Iowa State University"

Childress weaves engaging stories through and around the teenagers whose everyday lives are represented by this book. The power of his narrative resides in part on his ability to raise profound issues from seemingly mundane occurrences. He avoids over-theorizing the teenagers' experiences and yet, at the same time, he is able to highlight their senses of self and place in the world. And the awful context that surfaces from his stories is that these teenagers are, for the most part, betrayed by our adult world (how it is planned, designed, and institutionalized) and the society (family, home, and community) we embrace. - Stuart C. Aitken, author of Family Fantasies and Community Space Our social and physical environments are a mess. Teenagers are sorely neglected, and Childress conveys the feeling that there is much that could so easily be done if we weren't so 'bloody fearful' about life. Educators, planners, designers, and parents should all read this book. - Douglas D. Paterson, University of British Columbia Childress is a good storyteller; the dialogue and the vignettes are compelling and evocative. - Lynn Paxson, Iowa State University

Author Information

Herb Childress is an architectural consultant and has a Ph.D. in Environment-Behavior Studies from the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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