Publications
Publication details [#50899]
Kurkowska-Budzan, Marta and Krzysztof Zamorski, eds. 2009. Oral History. The challenges of dialogue. (Studies in Narrative 10). John Benjamins.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
Annotation
This volume 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 papers embody the experiences of the authors, their efforts and successes, as well as their failures in dialoguing with narrators.
Articles in this volume
Tuomaala, Saara. The dialogues in-between: A phenomenological perspective on women's oral history interviews. 77–86
O'Brien, Sarah. 'The stranger within my Gate': Irish emigrant narratives of exile, tradition and modernity in post-war Britain. 129–144