Table of Contents

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