Memory, Subjectivities, and Representation [electronic resource] : Approaches to Oral History in Latin America, Portugal, and Spain /
Benmayor, Rina.editor.
Dominguez Prats, Pilar.editor.
Cardenal de la Nuez, María Eugenia.editor.
This collection presents diverse scholarly approaches to oral narratives in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds. Eleven essays, originally written in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, coalesce around major themes that have long concerned oral historians and social scientists: collective memories of conflictive national pasts, subjectivity in re/framing social identities, and visual and performative re/presentations of identity and public memory.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This collection presents diverse scholarly approaches to oral narratives in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds. Eleven essays, originally written in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, coalesce around major themes that have long concerned oral historians and social scientists: collective memories of conflictive national pasts, subjectivity in re/framing social identities, and visual and performative re/presentations of identity and public memory.
Introduction / Rina Benmayor, Maria Eugenia Cardenal de la Nuez, and Pilar Dominguez Prats -- 1. "I Was Just One More Among Many" : a Mosaic of Ex-combatant Voices from the Portuguese Colonial War / Angela Campos -- 2. Voices of Spanish Socialist Trade Unionism During the End of the Franco Regime and the Transition to Democracy / Pilar Dominguez Prats -- 3. "Gendered" Memories : Women's Narratives from the Southern Cone / Cristina Scheibe Wolff, Joana Maria Pedro, and Janine Gomes da Silva -- 4. The Healing Effect of Discourses : Body, Emotions and Gender Subjectivity in Basque Nationalism / Miren Llona -- 5. Lola's Story : The Struggle to Build a Professional Identity with No Good Jobs in Sight / Maria Eugenia Cardenal de la Nuez -- 6. "Getting Ahead" : The American Dream in the California Agricultural Fields / Magdalena Villarreal -- 7. Migration, Sex Work, and Stigma : An Analysis in Biographical Code / Angeles Arjona Garrido, Juan Carlos Checa Olmos, Estefania Acien Gonzalez, and Francisco Majuelos Martinez -- 8. Oral Accounts and Visual Inscriptions : Narratives Under Heavily Tattooed Skin / Vitor Sergio Ferreira -- 9. The Black Movement and Race Relations in Brazil : Building New Knowledge Through Online Oral History Materials / Verena Alberti and Amilcar Araujo Pereira -- 10. Images and Words : Photography and the 1968 Student Movement in Mexico / Alberto del Castillo Troncoso -- 11. "A Living Museum of Small, Forgotten and Unwanted Memories" : Performing Oral Histories of the Portuguese Dictatorship and Revolution / Joana Craveiro.
America—History.
Europe—History.
Oral history.
History of the Americas.
European History.
Oral History.