216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
201 Pages
by
Routledge
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Any life story, whether a written autobiography or an oral testimony, is shaped not only by the reworkings of experience through memory and re-evaluation, but also by art. Any communication has to use shared conventions not only of language itself, but also the more complex expectations of "genre," the forms expected within a given context and type of communication. This collection of essays by... Read more
1: Introduction; 2: Oral History As Genre; 3: Silences; 4: A Brazilian Worker’s Autobiography in an Unexpected Form; 5: Family Fables; 6: Anecdote as Narrative Resource in Working-Class Life Stories; 7: My Life as Consumer; 8: Distant Homes, Our Genre; 9: The Oral History Interview in a Cross-Cultural Setting; 10: In the Archive, in the Field; 11: Sharing and Reshaping Life Stories
Biography
Paul Thompson
