Diverse Personnel in Libraries
Diversity
Identity
Interviewees
Interviewing
Life History
Memory
Mentoring
Oral Historians: Tasks and Roles
Oral History
Oral History: Definitions
Shared Authority
Spectrum Initiative
Storytelling
Trauma
Validity
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- “In the oral history interview, the process of remembering
does not exist in a vacuum; it develops in the course of the dialogue
between the interviewer and narrator in the context of their relationship.” i
- “In memory, time becomes “place”: all the recollected
past exists simultaneously in the space of the mind.” ii
- “Events are identified and located in time in terms of a linear
syntagmatic axis (chronology), two vertical paradigms (temporal simultaneity,
formal similarity), and their combination in history discourse.” iii
- “Memory is living history, the remembered past that exists
in the present.” iv
- “… [the] definition of event as a cultural construction
based on the context created by memory through selection and connection
among a multiplicity of happenings and by the form in which the story
is told.” v
i Portelli, Alessandro, The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories:
Form and Meaning in Oral History (Albany: SUNY Press, 1991), Marjorie
Shostak, “What the Wind Won’t Take Away” in Personal
Narratives Group, Interpreting Women’s Lives: Feminist Theory and
Personal Narrative (Bloomington: Indian University Press, 1989); Valerie
Yow, ‘Ethics and Interpersonal Relationships in Oral History Resesarch,”
OHReview, 22:1 (1995): 51-66.
ii Portelli, Alessandro (The Battle of Valle Guilia: Oral History and
the Art of Dialogue. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1997),
32.
iii Portelli, Alessandro (The Battle of Valle Guilia: Oral History and
the Art of Dialogue. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1997),
99.
iv Frisch, Michael, “Introduction,” In A Shared Authority:
Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History (Albany, NY:
Statue University of New York Press, 1990), xxiii.
v Portelli, Alessandro (The Battle of Valle Guilia: Oral History and
the Art of Dialogue. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1997),
99.
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