Oral History and Public Memories
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Oral History and Public Memories is the first book to explore the relationship between the well-established practice of oral history and the burgeoning field of memory studies. In the past, oral historians have generally privileged the individual narrator, frequently fetishizing the interview process without fully understanding that interviews are only one form of memory-making. Historians engaged in memory studies, on the other hand, have asked broader questions-about the social and cultural processes at work in remembrance, for example. What distinguishes these essays from much work in oral history is their focus not on the experiences of individual narrators, but on the broader cultural meanings of oral history narratives. What distinguishes them from other work in memory studies is their grounding in real events. Taken together, these contributions explain the processes by which oral histories move beyond interviews with individual people to become articulated memories shared by others.
Introduction Building Partnerships between Oral History and Memory Studies Paula Hamilton Hamilton, Paula Linda Shapes Shapes, LindaPart IIntroduction Creating Heritage1 Parks Canada, the Commemoration of Canada, and Northern Aboriginal Oral History David Neufeld Neufeld, David 72 History from Above: The Use of Oral History in Shaping Collective Memory in Singapore Kevin Blackburn Blackburn, Kevin 313 Mapping Memories: Oral History for Aboriginal Cultural Heritage in New South Wales, Australia Maria Nugent Nugent, Maria 474 Moving beyond the Walls: The Oral History of the Ottoman Fortress Villages of Seddulbahir and Kumkale Isil Cerem Cenker Cenker, Isil Cerem Lucienne Thys-Senocak Thys-Senocak, Lucienne 655 Private Memory in a Public Space: Oral History and Museums Selma Thomas Thomas, Selma 87Part IIIntroduction Recreating Identity and Community 1036 Imagining Communities: Memory, Loss, and Resilience in Post-Apartheid Cape Town Sean Field Field, Sean 1077 Contested Places in Public Memory: Reflections on Personal Testimony and Oral History in Japanese American Heritage Gail Lee Dubrow Dubrow, Gail Lee 1258 "Scars in the Ground": Kauri Gum Stories Senka Bozic-Vrbancic Bozic-Vrbancic, Senka 1459 Memory and Mourning: Living Oral History with Queer Latinos and Latinas in San Francisco Horacio N. Roque Ramirez Ramirez, Horacio N. Roque 16510 Interfaced Memory: Black World War II Ex-GIs' and Veterans' Reunions of the Late Twentieth Century Robert F. Jefferson Jefferson, Robert F. 187Part IIIIntroduction Making Change 20711 Public Memory as Arena of Contested Meanings: A Student Project on MigrationRiki Van Boeschoten Van Boeschoten, Riki 21112 Countering Corporate Narratives from the Streets: The Cleveland Homeless Oral History Project Daniel Kerr Kerr, Daniel 23113 Public Memory, Gender, and National Identity in Postwar Kosovo: The Albanian Community Silvia Salvatici Salvatici, Silvia 25314 Seeing the Past, Visions of the Future: Memory Workshops with Internally Displaced Persons in Colombia Pilar Riano-Alcala Riano-Alcala, Pilar 269Contributors 293Index 297
