{"product_id":"what-the-children-said-child-lore-of-south-louisiana-hardcover","title":"What the Children Said: Child Lore of South Louisiana - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJeanne Pitre Soileau\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 Opie Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJeanne Pitre Soileau vividly presents children's voices in \u003ci\u003eWhat the Children Said: Child Lore of South Louisiana\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat the Children Said \u003c\/i\u003eaffirms 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeanne Pitre Soileau\u003c\/b\u003e is author of \u003ci\u003eYo' Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux: Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the 2018 Chicago Folklore Prize and the 2018 Opie Prize. She spent fifty years accumulating recordings of children as they answered a short list of questions related to their verbal play. Her study of schoolyard conversations is a treasure trove of children's networking, speech play, group policing, and imaginative sparring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 346\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 23, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42099632242823,"sku":"9781496835734","price":198.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/fdee810bacc51ac4bd318cbfb65c66b0.webp?v=1732376180","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/what-the-children-said-child-lore-of-south-louisiana-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}