ISBN:
9781496835734
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9781496835741
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 331 Seiten
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Karten
Series Statement:
Cultures of childhood
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Soileau, Jeanne Pitre What the children said
DDC:
398.209763/4
Keywords:
Folklore and children Research
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Folklore and children
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Children Folklore
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Children Folklore
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Counting-out rhymes
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Circle games
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Jump rope rhymes
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Hand games
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Rhyming games
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Wit and humor, Juvenile
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Children Juvenile humor
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Kind
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Abzählreim
Abstract:
Preface --Introduction --Chapter 1: Counting outChapter 2: Ring games --Chapter 3: Jump rope --Chapter 4: Hand games --Chapter 5: Rhymes and songs --Chapter 6: Running and imagination games --Chapter 7: Teases --Chapter 8: Jokes --Chapter 9: Thank you notes --Notes --Works cited --Appendix: Annotated list of collection sites --Index.
Abstract:
"Jeanne Pitre Soileau, winner of the 2018 Chicago Folklore Prize and the Opie Prize, vividly presents children's voices in What the Children Said: Child Lore of South Louisiana. Including over six hundred handclaps, chants, jokes, jump-rope rhymes, cheers, taunts, and teases, this book takes the reader through a fifty-year history of child speech as it has influenced children's lives. What the Children Said affirms that children's play in south Louisiana is acquired along a network of summer camps, schoolyards, church gatherings, and sleepovers with friends. When children travel, they obtain new games and rhymes, and bring them home. The volume also reveals, in the words of the children themselves, how young people deal with racism and sexism. The children argue and outshout one another, policing their own conversations, stating their own prejudices, and vying with one another for dominion. The first transcript in the book tracks a conversation among three related boys and shows that racism is part of the family interchange. Among second grade boys and girls at a Catholic school another transcript presents numerous examples in which boys use insults to dominate a conversation with girls, and girls use giggles and sly comebacks to counter this aggression. Though collected in the areas of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Lafayette, Louisiana, this volume shows how south Louisiana child lore is connected to other English-speaking places: England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, as well as the rest of the United States"--
Note:
Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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