Oral history and public memories / edited by Paula Hamilton and Linda Shopes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hamilton, Paula, 1951-

Shopes, Linda.

Series:

Critical perspectives on the past.

Critical perspectives on the past

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oral history.

Collective memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.

Summary:

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 Am

Contents:

Parks Canada, the commemoration of Canada, and northern Aboriginal oral history / David Neufeld

History from above : the use of oral history in shaping collective memory in Singapore / Kevin Blackburn

Mapping memories : oral history for Aboriginal cultural heritage in New South Wales, Australia / Maria Nugent

Moving beyond the walls : the oral history of the Ottoman fortress Villages of Seddulbahir and Kumkale / Isil Cerem Cenker and Lucienne Thys-Senocak

Private memory in a public space : oral history and museums / Selma Thomas

Imagining communities : memory, loss, and resilience in post-apartheid Cape Town / Sean field

Contested places in public memory : reflections on personal testimony and oral history in Japanese American heritage / Gail Lee Dubrow

"Scars in the ground" : Kauri Gum stories / Senka Bozic-Vrbancic

Memory and mourning : living oral history with queer Latinos and Latinas in San Francisco / Horacio N. Roque Ramirez

Interfaced memory : black World War II ex-GIs' and veterans' reunions of the late twentieth century / Robert F. Jefferson

Public memory as arena of contested meanings : a student project on migration / Riki van Boeschoten

Countering corporate narratives from the streets : the Cleveland Homeless Oral History Project / Daniel Kerr

Public memory, gender, and national identity in post-war Kosovo : the Albanian community / Silvia Salvatici

Seeing the past, visions of the future : memory workshops with internally displaced persons in Colombia / Pilar Riano-Alcala

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611878986

9781281878984

1281878987

9781592131426

1592131425

OCLC:

476204143