Last Writes

A Daybook for a Dying Friend
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-59874-186-5
Verlag: Left Coast Press Inc

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives

Betty Frankel Kirschner succumbed to emphysema one day in June. She had been a long-term professor at Kent State University, founding member of the feminist caucus in sociology, a political activist, a chain smoker. Close friend Laurel Richardson, a key figure in literary turn in ethnographic writing, kept a daybook, relating their conversations and interactions over Betty’s last few months. Rich in memory, emotion, dreams, and life-and-death decisions, the daybook chronicles the ups and down of a terminally ill woman and the impact that illness has on friends, colleagues, and family alike. Richardson also grapples with the ethics of writing deeply personal narratives. Part memoir, part sociological analysis, part eulogy to a departed friend, Richardson opens a poignant window into living an academic life, and ending it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Richardson, Laurel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 October; Chapter 2 November; Chapter 3 December; Chapter 4 January; Chapter 5 February; Chapter 6 March; Chapter 7 April; Chapter 8 May; Chapter 9 June; Chapter 10 July; Chapter 11 Afterword;

Über Autor(innen)

Laurel Richardson