- Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 331 pages)
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Cultures of childhood
- Uniform Title
- What the children said (Online)
- Alternative Title
- What the children said (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Counting out Chapter 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.
- LCCN
- 2021013955
- OCLC
- ssj0002483758
- Author
Soileau, Jeanne Pitre.
- Title
What the children said [electronic resource] : child lore of south Louisiana / Jeanne Pitre Soileau.
- Imprint
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]
- Series
Cultures of childhood
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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