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Oral History
The challenges of dialogue
Oral History: The Challenges of Dialogue shows contemporary oral history at work in a variety of contexts, levels, and engagements. The issues developed in the book correspond to different stages of research: preparing and conducting the interview, evaluating and analyzing the collected material, publishing in the broad sense of speaking to different audiences, and finally, addressing the dilemmas and philosophical reflections with an emphasis on ethics. This book aims to address oral history from two perspectives. The first is the perspective of oral history as dialoguing, the second is the presentation of concrete situations, research, persons, and their own stories as built on the solid ground of discourse and within a concrete context. The chapters embody the experiences of the authors, their efforts and successes, as well as their failures in dialoguing with narrators. Unveiled in this book is the extensive breadth of contemporary oral history work, bridging epistemological and methodological horizons.
[Studies in Narrative, 10] 2009. xviii, 224 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 27 April 2009
Published online on 27 April 2009
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- List of editors and contributors | pp. vii–viii
- ForewordAlessandro Portelli and Charles Hardy III | pp. ix–x
- From the editorsMarta Kurkowska-Budzan and Krzysztof Zamorski | pp. xi–xviii
- Section 1. Fieldwork challenges
- Trust in the empathic interviewSofie Strandén | pp. 3–13
- Oral historian: Neither moralizer nor informerLeena Rossi | pp. 15–26
- Memorable belongingsKerstin Gunnemark | pp. 27–34
- Oral history & e-research: Collecting memories of the 1960´s and 1970´s youth cultureLiisa Avelin | pp. 35–45
- Oral history and political elites: Interviewing (and transcribing) lobbyistsConor McGrath | pp. 47–60
- Section 2. Doing gender
- Doing gender within oral historyHelga Amesberger | pp. 63–75
- The dialogues in-between: A phenomenological perspective on women's oral history interviewsSaara Tuomaala | pp. 77–86
- The problems of articulating beingness in women's oral historiesMary Patrice Erdmans | pp. 87–97
- Section 3. Behind and beyond the stories
- Conversations with survivors of the siege of Leningrad: Between myth and historyJames Chalmers Clapperton | pp. 101–113
- Women soldiers and women prisoners: Oral testimonies of Ruta Czaplińska and Elżbieta ZawackaAnna Muller | pp. 115–128
- 'The stranger within my Gate': Irish emigrant narratives of exile, tradition and modernity in post-war BritainSarah O'Brien | pp. 129–144
- Section 4. Public space challenges
- Painting in sound: Aural history and audio artCharles Hardy III | pp. 147–167
- Oral history as a dialogue with the Polish-Jewish past of a local community from the perspective of social pedagogyMarta Kubiszyn | pp. 169–178
- Sharing oral history with the wider public: Experiences of the Refugee Communities History ProjectZibiah Alfred | pp. 179–192
- Section 5. Story - oral history - historiography
- The ethics of oral history: Expectations, responsibilities, and dissociationsBrigitte Halbmayr | pp. 195–203
- Life story interviews and the "Truth of Memory": Some aspects of oral history from a historico-philosophical perspectiveKarin Stögner | pp. 205–215
- Index | pp. 217–224
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