Travels with Ernest: Crossing the Literary/Sociological Divide

by Laurel Richardson, Ernest Lockridge

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780759105973
Publisher:	AltaMira Press
Publication date:	05/20/2004
Series:	Ethnographic Alternatives Series , #16
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.52(w) x 8.92(h) x 0.68(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Trail Guide: An Introduction Chapter 3 1: Death Valley Part 4 Death Valley Day Part 5 Ah Wilderness! Part 6 Conversation: Death Valley Chapter 7 2: Ireland Part 8 All in the Family Part 9 Unquiet American Part 10 Conversation: Ireland Chapter 11 3: Beirut, Lebanon Part 12 City by the Sea Part 13 Laurel in Arabia Part 14 Conversation: Beirut Part 15 Meta-Conversation Chapter 16 4: Copenhagen, Denmark Part 17 Lost in the Space Part 18 Stranger in a Stranger Land Part 19 Conversation: Copenhagen Chapter 20 5: Petrozavodsk, Russia Part 21 Out of Russia Part 22 To Russia with Love Part 23 Conversation: Russia Chapter 24 6: St. Petersburg Beach, Florida Part 25 On the Beach Part 26 Ernest goes to Yale Part 27 Conversation: St. Pete Beach Chapter 28 7: Sedona, Arizona Part 29 Call of the Canyon Part 30 Grandson of Paleface Chapter 31 8: Worthington, Ohio Part 32 Happy Trail—The Movie Chapter 33 Appendix: How This Book Was Made Chapter 34 About the Authors Chapter 35 Index

Editorial Reviews

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

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