Contents
Preface
Transcription Conventions
1 Introduction: Dialogism and Subjectivity
2 “That was before I ever left home”: Complex Accounts of a Simple Childhood
3 “If you had to work as hard as I did, it would kill you”: Work, Narrative, and Self-Definition
4 “I said, ‘Don’t you do it’”: Tracing Development as an Empowered Speaker through Reported Speech in Narrative
5 “He never did say anything about my dreams that would worry me after that”: Negotiating Gender and Power in Ghost Stories
6 “I’m a bad one to go pulling jokes on people”: Practical Joking as a Problematic Vehicle for Oppositional Self-Definition
7 “My singing is my life”: Repertoire and Performance
8 Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index