Oral History

The challenges of dialogue

Editors

Marta Kurkowska-Budzan | Jagiellonian University, Kraków

Krzysztof Zamorski | Jagiellonian University, Kraków

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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

https://doi.org/10.1075/sin.10

Table of Contents

List of editors and contributors | pp. vii–viii

Foreword

Alessandro Portelli and Charles Hardy III | pp. ix–x

From the editors

Marta Kurkowska-Budzan and Krzysztof Zamorski | pp. xi–xviii

Section 1. Fieldwork challenges

Trust in the empathic interview

Sofie Strandén | pp. 3–13

Oral historian: Neither moralizer nor informer

Leena Rossi | pp. 15–26

Memorable belongings

Kerstin Gunnemark | pp. 27–34

Oral history & e-research: Collecting memories of the 1960´s and 1970´s youth culture

Liisa Avelin | pp. 35–45

Oral history and political elites: Interviewing (and transcribing) lobbyists

Conor McGrath | pp. 47–60

Section 2. Doing gender

Doing gender within oral history

Helga Amesberger | pp. 63–75

The dialogues in-between: A phenomenological perspective on women's oral history interviews

Saara Tuomaala | pp. 77–86

The problems of articulating beingness in women's oral histories

Mary Patrice Erdmans | pp. 87–97

Section 3. Behind and beyond the stories

Conversations with survivors of the siege of Leningrad: Between myth and history

James Chalmers Clapperton | pp. 101–113

Women soldiers and women prisoners: Oral testimonies of Ruta Czaplińska and Elżbieta Zawacka

Anna Muller | pp. 115–128

'The stranger within my Gate': Irish emigrant narratives of exile, tradition and modernity in post-war Britain

Sarah O'Brien | pp. 129–144

Section 4. Public space challenges

Painting in sound: Aural history and audio art

Charles Hardy III | pp. 147–167

Oral history as a dialogue with the Polish-Jewish past of a local community from the perspective of social pedagogy

Marta Kubiszyn | pp. 169–178

Sharing oral history with the wider public: Experiences of the Refugee Communities History Project

Zibiah Alfred | pp. 179–192

Section 5. Story - oral history - historiography

The ethics of oral history: Expectations, responsibilities, and dissociations

Brigitte Halbmayr | pp. 195–203

Life story interviews and the "Truth of Memory": Some aspects of oral history from a historico-philosophical perspective

Karin Stögner | pp. 205–215

Index | pp. 217–224

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