Storytelling Rights: The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by Urban Adolescents

by Amy Shuman

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521030048
• ISBN13: 9780521030045
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"