An essay about the intersection of folklore and song-writing.
Personal Narrative
Exploring Frontiers: An American Tradition
A memoir about the Homosexual Rights Movement of 1950s Los Angeles.
“Looking for Some Sort of Love”: The sexual Life History of a Gay Man
An interview based essay on one person’s sexual life hisotry.
Inside Millie’s Kitchen
Personal narratives enable us to define a specific group’s values within the context of daily life. Using one Adirondack narrator as the subject of the paper, McMahon demonstrates how whe creates and defines her narrative space within the boundaries of her community,
“Poor Child”: A Sculptale
A sculptor, Harry Eisner describes his connection to his art through storytelling.
Winemaking and Personal Cosmology
Personal Narratives of wine making and wine drinking provides a source for self-definition that reinforced ethnicity and personal identity