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Travels with Ernest: Crossing the Literary/sociological Divide (Ethnographic Alternatives): 16
Author(s): Laurel Richardson (Author), Ernest Lockridge (Author)
- Publisher: AltaMira Press (UK)
- Publication Date: 23 April 2004
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 0759105960
- ISBN-13: 9780759105966
Book Description
In Travels with Ernest: Crossing the Literary/Sociological Divide, Laurel Richardson and Ernest Lockridge_accomplished sociologist and published novelist_explore the fascinating interplay between literary and ethnographic writing. The exciting result is an intriguing experimental text that simultaneously delves into, reveals, simplifies, and complicates methodologies of writing and conveying experience. Refusing to force their unique voices into one integrated account, the authors_also spouses_explicate their stories in separate narratives and then discuss in transcribed free-wheeling conversations their different constructions of their travels together, travels simultaneously experienced, but recalled and related differently through the filters of distinct professional perceptions, life histories, and interiors. This boundary-crossing text will provide an ideal platform for students and professors interested in understanding and exploring the absorbing complexities and possibilities of ethnographic writing and creative nonfiction.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This exciting collaboration between Laurel Richardson and Ernest Lockridge is a writing story that documents the changing relationship of two writers, scholars, and lovers as they interpret differently their travels. Blurring the genres between ethnography, travel writing, science writing, and memoir, this experiment works in unexpected ways to challenge our notions of gender, space and place, and the possibilities of relationship in a postmodern world. — Elizabeth St. Pierre, The University of Georgia
A powerful and provocative exemplar of writing as inquiry, Travels with Ernest offers new and exciting possibilities for collaborative storytelling. There is no other book like it. — Carolyn Ellis, University of South Florida
About the Author
Laurel Richardson is professor of sociology at Ohio State University. Ernest Lockridge is a novelist and professor of English at Ohio State University.
