Title: Tapestry of memory : evidence and testimony in life-story narratives /
Authors: Adler, Nanci.; Leydesdorff, Selma.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Historiography Methodology Case studies.; Memory Case studies.; Collective memory Case studies.
Abstract: "In this volume, contributors present narratives and explore the way they influence the perception of the past. While acknowledging the debate about the validity of qualitative research based on narratives, this volume aims to illuminate how truth and evidence form part of a much wider debate on the representation of history. The volume includes the work of historians but the interdisciplinary nature of the contributions shows that the validity debate also applies to the broader fields of cultural studies, sociology, and other social sciences. The distinction between memory and testimony is a crucial theme. Memory, though selective, is the basis of testimony. Testimony provides an audience with information that becomes evidence of what was seen or experienced. Such evidence can form the basis of legal truth. Nanci Adler and Selma Leydesdorff divide the volume into three core sections: Official Testimony and Other Facts and Evidence ; The Creation of New History and the Integration of Collective Memory in the Story of One's Self; and Claims Based on Narratives vs. Official History. After a comprehensive introduction by the editors, the volume offers twelve essays by leading scholars. This work is a new offering in Transaction's acclaimed Memory and Narrative series"--Publisher's description.
Contents: Introduction : on the evidence value of personal testimony / Selma Leydesdorff and Nanci Adler -- Historicizing hate : testimonies and photos about the Holocaust : trauma during the Hungarian post WWII trials / Andrea Peto -- The legacies of the Stalinist repression : narratives of the children of loyalist "enemies of the people" / Nanci Adler -- "You don't believe me?" : truth and testimony in Cypriot refugee narratives / Helen Taylor -- Between social and individual memory : being a Polish woman in a Stalinist prison / Anna Muller -- "They didn't rape me" : traces of gendered violence and sexual injury in the testimonies of Spanish republican woman of the Franco dictatorship / Gina Herrmann -- On testimony : the pain of speaking and speaking of pain / Srila Roy -- Memories of Argentina's past over time : the memories of Tacuara / Maria Valeria Galvan -- History, memory, narrative : expressions of collective memory in the northern Cheyenne testimony / Sachiko Kawaura -- Voices behind the mic : sport broadcasters, autobiography and competing narratives of the past / Richard Haynes -- The "book of us" : will and community in South African land restitution / Christiaan Beyers -- 'What may or not may not have happened in the past' : truth, lies and the refusal to witness indigenous Australian testimony / Kelly Butler -- Individual desire or social duty? : the role of testimony in a restitution procedure : an inquiry into social practice / Nicole L. Immler.