What the children said : child lore of south Louisiana /

What the children said : child lore of south Louisiana /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Soileau, Jeanne Pitre, author.
Imprint:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2021.
Description:	ix, 331 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cultures of childhood
Subject:	Folklore and children -- Research. Folklore and children -- Louisiana. Children -- Folklore. Children -- Louisiana -- Folklore. Counting-out rhymes -- Louisiana. Circle games -- Louisiana. Jump rope rhymes -- Louisiana. Hand games. Rhyming games -- Louisiana. Wit and humor, Juvenile. Children -- Juvenile humor. Children. Circle games. Counting-out rhymes. Folklore and children. Folklore and children -- Research. Hand games. Jump rope rhymes. Rhyming games. Wit and humor, Juvenile. Louisiana. Folklore. Humor. Juvenile works.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12700415

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ISBN:	9781496835734 1496835735 9781496835741 1496835743 9781496835758 9781496835765 9781496835772 9781496835789
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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"--
Other form:	Online version: Soileau, Jeanne Pitre. What the children said Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2021 9781496835758

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Summary:	Jeanne Pitre Soileau, winner of the 2018 Chicago Folklore Prize and the 2018 Opie Prize for Yo' Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux: Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play , 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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, and New Zealand, as well as the rest of the United States.
Physical Description:	ix, 331 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:	9781496835734 1496835735 9781496835741 1496835743 9781496835758 9781496835765 9781496835772 9781496835789