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Oral history at the crossroads : sharing life stories of survival and displacement / Steven High.
Van Pelt Library HV640.4.C3 H54 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- High, Steven C., author.
- Series:
- Shared (Series)
- Shared, oral & public history series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Refugees--Québec (Province)--Montréal--History.
- Refugees.
- Refugees--Québec (Province)--Montréal--Biography.
- Refugees--Québec (Province)--Montréal--Interviews.
- Violence--History.
- Violence.
- History.
- Survival--History.
- Survival.
- Oral history--Québec (Province)--Montréal.
- Oral history.
- Public history--Québec (Province)--Montréal.
- Public history.
- Montreal Life Stories Project.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 441 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver : UBC Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- Over the span of seven years, hundreds of people displaced by mass violence told their stories to the Montreal Life Stories project. From the outset, the project's organizers sought to develop an alternative model to traditional oral history practice one where community members "shared authority" as equal partners. Together, they challenged long-held beliefs about how oral stories should be collected and shared. As a sustained reflection on this large-scale experiment in collaborative research, Oral History at the Crossroads has methodological and ethical implications for scholars. It also provides a contemporary model for curating public history, pushing the field in new directions. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Mutual Sightings
- 1 Interviewing Survivors 33
- 2 A Flower in the River 67
- 3 Bearing Witness 97
- 4 Regenerative Possibilities 121
- 5 Remembering Haiti 145
- 6 Smile through the Tears 169
- Part 2 Curating Life Stories
- 7 Sharing Stories 193
- 8 Walking the City 223
- 9 Oral History and Performance 241
- 10 Blurred Boundaries 265.
- Notes:
- "Oral History at the Crossroads tells the story of the Montreal Life Stories project, a major collaborative research initiative investigating the life stories of Montrealers displaced by war, genocide, and other human rights violations"--introduction.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- High, Steven C, author. Oral history at the crossroads.
- ISBN:
- 9780774826839
- 0774826835
- OCLC:
- 871227897
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