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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- “Storytelling is for an other as much as it is for oneself.
In the reciprocity that is storytelling, the teller offers herself as
a guide to the other’s self-formation. The other’s receipt
of that guidance not only recognizes but values the teller. The moral
genius of storytelling is that each, teller and listener, enters the space
of the story for the other. Telling stories in postmodern times, and perhaps
in all times, attempts to change one’s life by affecting the lives
of others.” i
- “And one creative storyteller, a brilliant verbal artist, is
as rich a source of knowledge as any set of statistics.” ii
i Frank, Arthur, The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1993), 17-18.
ii Portelli, Alessandro (The Battle of Valle Guilia: Oral History and
the Art of Dialogue. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1997),
58.
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