Amy Shuman is a professor of English, anthropology, and women's studies at the Ohio State University. She is the author of Storytelling Rights: The Uses of Oral and Written Texts Among Urban Adolescents

"A major and positively delightful work from one of the most consistently thoughtful, rigorous, engaging, and provocative scholars in the field." --Don Brenneis, past president of the American Anthropological Association "Empathy for the suffering of other humans is assumed to be one of the grounds for moral action. It is an unexamined assumption. In Other People's Stories, Shuman undertakes a critique of empathy, rooted in the examination of what she calls stories that travel: subversive stories, emancipatory stories, redemptive stories, and that astonishing and quirky new genre: small world stories. The book is bold, philosophically profound, and ethnographically adventurous."--Katharine Young, author of Taleworlds and Storyrealms: The Phenomenology of Narrative "A fascinating and timely study that offers convincing assessments of the stories and coincidences of everyday life."--Robert Barsky, author of Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent

Amy Shuman is a professor of English, anthropology, and women's studies at the Ohio State University. She is the author of Storytelling Rights: The Uses of Oral and Written Texts Among Urban Adolescents

"A major and positively delightful work from one of the most consistently thoughtful, rigorous, engaging, and provocative scholars in the field." --Don Brenneis, past president of the American Anthropological Association "Empathy for the suffering of other humans is assumed to be one of the grounds for moral action. It is an unexamined assumption. In Other People's Stories, Shuman undertakes a critique of empathy, rooted in the examination of what she calls stories that travel: subversive stories, emancipatory stories, redemptive stories, and that astonishing and quirky new genre: small world stories. The book is bold, philosophically profound, and ethnographically adventurous."--Katharine Young, author of Taleworlds and Storyrealms: The Phenomenology of Narrative "A fascinating and timely study that offers convincing assessments of the stories and coincidences of everyday life."--Robert Barsky, author of Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent

Amy Shuman is a professor of English, anthropology, and women's studies at the Ohio State University. She is the author of Storytelling Rights: The Uses of Oral and Written Texts Among Urban Adolescents

"A major and positively delightful work from one of the most consistently thoughtful, rigorous, engaging, and provocative scholars in the field." --Don Brenneis, past president of the American Anthropological Association "Empathy for the suffering of other humans is assumed to be one of the grounds for moral action. It is an unexamined assumption. In Other People's Stories, Shuman undertakes a critique of empathy, rooted in the examination of what she calls stories that travel: subversive stories, emancipatory stories, redemptive stories, and that astonishing and quirky new genre: small world stories. The book is bold, philosophically profound, and ethnographically adventurous."--Katharine Young, author of Taleworlds and Storyrealms: The Phenomenology of Narrative "A fascinating and timely study that offers convincing assessments of the stories and coincidences of everyday life."--Robert Barsky, author of Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent