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Other People's Stories: Entitlement Claims and the Critique ...

Other People's Stories: Entitlement Claims and the Critique ...

Amy Shuman

In Other People's Stories, Amy Shuman examines the social relations embedded in stories and the complex ethical and social tensions that surround their telling.
Other People's Stories: Entitlement Claims and the Critique ...

Other People's Stories: Entitlement Claims and the Critique ...

Amy Shuman

In Other People's Stories, Amy Shuman examines the social relations embedded in stories and the complex ethical and social tensions that surround their telling.
Favorite Dishes: A Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book

Favorite Dishes: A Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book

Carrie V. Shuman

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Shuman, Carrie V. Favorite dishes : a Columbian autograph souvenir cookery book / compiled by Carrie V. Shuman ; introductions by Reid Badger and Bruce Kraig. p. cm. Reprint. Originally ...
Pomus & Shuman: Hitmakers Together & Apart

Pomus & Shuman: Hitmakers Together & Apart

Graham Vickers

The story of Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, writing together and individually, reveals a personal dynamic that was both warm and difficult but which at its height produced songs like Teenager In Love, Save The Last Dance For Me, Surrender, ...
The Stigmatized Vernacular: Where Reflexivity Meets ...

The Stigmatized Vernacular: Where Reflexivity Meets ...

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Where Reflexivity Meets Untellability Diane E. Goldstein, Amy Shuman. especially outside the context of the farmers' own discussions. She points out that the economic and symbolic discourses about tobacco have been discursively separated ...
Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches

Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches

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GENDERED PERFORMANCE AND AUTHORITATIVE FRAMES In her essay " Gender and Genre," Amy Shuman explains that "genres are not neutral classification systems but are part of a politics of interpretation in which meaning and the ...
Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse

Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse

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AMY SHUMAN Introduction The metaphor of voice, especially disparate voices, silenced voices, minority and marginalized voices, has become a familiar part of political discussions. The too easy solution, to let all voices speak, ignores the ...
Narrative - State of the Art

Narrative - State of the Art

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Entitlement and empathy in personal narrative Amy Shuman My review of the past thirty years of narrative scholarship returns to the work of Harvey Sacks and Erving Goffman, situated in Dell Hymes' ethnography of communication, to examine ...
Recipes for Reading: Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories

Recipes for Reading: Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories

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Amy Shuman, "The Rhetoric of Portions," Western Folklore 40.1 (1981): 72—80, discusses the social consequences of food apportionment, illuminating its importance in social behaviors. This may be a conditioning factor in where and how ...
Storytelling Rights: The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by ...

Storytelling Rights: The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by ...

Amy Shuman

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 ...
Fields of Play: Constructing an Academic Life

Fields of Play: Constructing an Academic Life

Laurel Richardson

The members of my Feminist Post- Modern Studies (PMS) reading group — Eloise Buker, Suzanne Damarin, Gisela Hinkle, Nancy Johnson, Marilyn Johnstone, Kaybee Jones, Patti Lather, Mary Leach, Linda Meadows, Amy Shuman, Jane ...
Who Is Worthy of Protection?: Gender-Based Asylum and U.S. ...

Who Is Worthy of Protection?: Gender-Based Asylum and U.S. ...

Meghana Nayak

Quoted in Carol Bohmer and Amy Shuman, “Gender and Political Asylum,” Foreign Policy Association Blog, April 13, 2011, accessed February 12, 2014, http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2011/04/13/gender-political-asylum/. All information on the ...
Amy's Slippers

Amy's Slippers

Mary Chapman

Amy's Slippers. Amy's mum is fed up with dirty footprints on the carpet, but Amy says that she can't find her slippers.
Amy's Moon

Amy's Moon

Amy Middlebrook

We all watch the beautiful moon at night. But what if the moon watches back? In the delightful children's story Amy's Moon, one night the moon looks in at Amy's family through the windows of her house on his magical journey through the sky.
The Detective, The Woman and the Winking Tree: A Novel of ...

The Detective, The Woman and the Winking Tree: A Novel of ...

Amy Thomas

A Novel of Sherlock Holmes Amy Thomas ... 3GX www.mxpublishing.com Digital edition converted and distributed in 2012 by Andrews UK Limited www. andrewsuk.com © Copyright 2013 Amy Thomas The right of Amy Thomas to be identified ...
Amy's Slippers

Amy's Slippers

Mary Chapman

Amy's mum is fed up with dirty footprints on the carpet, but Amy says that she can't find her slippers. Now, if only she had some magic ones - wouldn't that be great? Guess what is waiting for her when she gets home from school?
Amy's Answering Machine: Messages from Mom

Amy's Answering Machine: Messages from Mom

Amy Borkowsky

" Amy also reveals the stories behind the messages and shares calls not available on CD, each one brimming with the worry and annoying comments only a loving mother could dish out.
Amy Snow: A Novel

Amy Snow: A Novel

Tracy Rees

'A sparkling and compelling mystery. Amy Snow captured our hearts from the very first page' Richard and Judy. Abandoned on a bank of snow as a baby, Amy is taken in at nearby Hatville Court.
Stanford

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Lastly, a hearty thank you to Amy Jen Su for her tireless work as our Class Notes co-correspondent. Amy is taking leave from her correspondent duties to spend more time with her family. Amy had an extraordinary ability to ferret out classmate  ...
Amy, My Daughter

Amy, My Daughter

Mitch Winehouse

The intimate, inside story of the ultimately tragic life of multiple Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse (“Rehab,” “Back to Black”) is told by the one person most able to tell it—Amy’s closest advisor, her ...
Amy Chua: Life of a Tiger Mother: The life and times of Amy ...

Amy Chua: Life of a Tiger Mother: The life and times of Amy ...

Debbie J.

ABOUT THE BOOK Amy Chua was a wellrespected and highprofile Yale Law Professor who published two bestsellers yet, no one seemed to have taken much notice of her.
Amy's Three Best Things

Amy's Three Best Things

Philippa Pearce

Amy wants to stay three nights with her granny - all by herself Granny gives her a lovely time, but each night Amy feels homesick. Luckily, she has brought three things with her which help in remarkable ways.
Ending Addiction for Good: The Groundbreaking, Holistic, ...

Ending Addiction for Good: The Groundbreaking, Holistic, ...

Richard Taite

When Amy Green's daughter said, “Mom, you're an addict and you need help,” Amy called it “the most mortifying moment of my life.” At fiftysix years old and with no family history of addiction, Amy simply couldn't believe that shehad become ...
If I Knew Then

If I Knew Then

Amy Fisher

The Amy Fisher case became an international obsession; in the United States, she was the subject of three major TV movies, a musical, books and even trading cards. Now aged 30, in If I Knew Then Amy tells her own story for the first time.
Inspector McLean Ebook Bundle:

Inspector McLean Ebook Bundle:

James Oswald

He searched first for the name Amy Prendergast, then Amy Calton and then, in a flash of inspiration, Amy Prendergast-Calton. Eventually he found a collection of obscure obituaries, indexed by someone with clearly far too much time on their ...
The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies

The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies

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The global landscape of crossborder reproductive care: Twenty key findings for the new millennium. Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 24(3), 158– 163. Amy C. Steinbugler Amy C. Steinbugler Steinbugler, Amy C. Interracial.
Yes Please by Amy Poehler - A 15-minute Summary & Analysis

Yes Please by Amy Poehler - A 15-minute Summary & Analysis

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Important People Amy Poehler: Amy Poehler is the author of Yes Please. She is a writer, actress, and comedienne who has worked with the comedy theater groups , Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade, and starred on the televisions ...
The Complete Novels and Selected Writings of Amy Levy, 1861-1889

The Complete Novels and Selected Writings of Amy Levy, 1861-1889

Amy Levy

Amy Levy was a talented Anglo-Jewish writer who committed suicide at the age of 28 in 1889.

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