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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 art. Any communication has to use shared conventions not only of language itself but also the more complex expectations of 'genre': of the forms expected within a given context and type of communication.
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Notes on contributors, Introduction to the series, Acknowledgements, 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 CROSSCULTURAL SETTING, 10 IN THE ARCHIVE, IN THE FIELD, 11 SHARING AND RESHAPING LIFE STORIES, RAPHAEL SAMUEL, RAPHAEL SAMUEL, A call for contributions, Index
Biography
Mary Chamberlain, Paul Thompson
