Tobias Hecht
Biographic Data
| ID | 212245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tobias Hecht |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tobias |
| FAMILY NAME | Hecht |
| SIGNATURE | HECHT T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Claremount, CA, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4714-3020 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What to Read Now: Testimonial Narratives
Rather than evoking oppression and brutality as fiction might, testimonial literature lays them bare through the words of those who endure and painfully resist, exalting rather than hiding the rough edges of those written out of history. Biography of a Runaway Slave Miguel Barnet Nick Hill, tr. This is arguably where the testimonial novel was born. Barnet, an anthropologist , interviewed Esteban Montejo in his 103rd year, a man who had lived in C…
Lost in Translation
A Case for Ethnographic Fiction
After Life: An Ethnographic Novel
Bruna Veríssimo, a youth from the hardscrabble streets of Recife, in Northeast Brazil, spoke with Tobias Hecht over the course of many years, reliving her early childhood in a raging and destitute home, her initiation into the world of prostitution at a time when her contemporaries had scarcely started school, and her coming of age against all odds.Hecht had originally intended to write a biography of Veríssimo. But with interviews ultimately spa…
Opinion, Dialogue, Review
At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil
Through innovative fieldwork and ethnographic writing, Hecht lays bare the received truths about the lives of Brazilian street children. This book changes the terms of the debate, asking not why there are so many homeless children in Brazil but why, given the oppressive alternative of home life in the shantytowns, there are in fact so few. Speaking in recorded sessions they called 'radio workshops', street children asked one another questions tha…
At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil
Through innovative fieldwork and ethnographic writing, Hecht lays bare the received truths about the lives of Brazilian street children. This book changes the terms of the debate, asking not why there are so many homeless children in Brazil but why, given the oppressive alternative of home life in the shantytowns, there are in fact so few. Speaking in recorded sessions they called 'radio workshops', street children asked one another questions tha…
Opinion, Dialogue, Review
After Life: An Ethnographic Novel
Bruna Veríssimo, a youth from the hardscrabble streets of Recife, in Northeast Brazil, spoke with Tobias Hecht over the course of many years, reliving her early childhood in a raging and destitute home, her initiation into the world of prostitution at a time when her contemporaries had scarcely started school, and her coming of age against all odds.Hecht had originally intended to write a biography of Veríssimo. But with interviews ultimately spa…
A Case for Ethnographic Fiction
Lost in Translation
What to Read Now: Testimonial Narratives
Rather than evoking oppression and brutality as fiction might, testimonial literature lays them bare through the words of those who endure and painfully resist, exalting rather than hiding the rough edges of those written out of history. Biography of a Runaway Slave Miguel Barnet Nick Hill, tr. This is arguably where the testimonial novel was born. Barnet, an anthropologist , interviewed Esteban Montejo in his 103rd year, a man who had lived in C…
Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Biography (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)