Format:
Online-Ressource (321 p.)
ISBN:
9781592131402
Content:
Oral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history interviews are used "in public," they invariably both reflect and shape public memories of the past. Oral History and Public Memories is the only book that explores this relationship, in fourteen case studies of oral history's use in a variety of venues and media around the world. Readers will learn, for example, of oral history based efforts to reclaim community memory in post-apartheid Cape Town, South Africa; of the role of personal testimony in changing public understanding of Japanese American history in the Americ
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Introduction; PART I; 1 Parks Canada, the Commemoration of Canada, and Northern Aboriginal Oral History; 2 History from Above: The Use of Oral History in Shaping Collective Memory in Singapore; 3 Mapping Memories: Oral History for Aboriginal Cultural Heritage in New South Wales, Australia; 4 Moving beyond the Walls: The Oral History of the Ottoman Fortress Villages of Seddülbahir and Kumkale; 5 Private Memory in a Public Space: Oral History and Museums; PART II; Introduction: Recreating Identity and Community
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6 Imagining Communities: Memory, Loss, and Resilience in Post-Apartheid Cape Town7 Contested Places in Public Memory: Reflections on Personal Testimony and Oral History in Japanese American Heritage; 8 "Scars in the Ground": Kauri Gum Stories; 9 Memory and Mourning: Living Oral History with Queer Latinos and Latinas in San Francisco; 10 Interfaced Memory: Black World War II Ex-GIs' and Veterans 'Reunions of the Late Twentieth Century; PART III; Introduction: Making Change; 11 Public Memory as Arena of Contested Meanings: A Student Project on Migration
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12 Countering Corporate Narratives from the Streets:The Cleveland Homeless Oral History Project13 Public Memory, Gender, and National Identity in Postwar Kosovo: The Albanian Community; 14 Seeing the Past,Visions of the Future: Memory Workshops with Internally Displaced Persons in Colombia; Contributors; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781592131426
Additional Edition:
Print version Oral History and Public Memories
Language:
English
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