Memory, subjectivities, and representation
Subtitle: approaches to oral history in Latin America, Portugal, and Spain
By: co-edited by Rina Benmayor, María Eugenia Cardenal de la Nuez, Pilar Domínguez Prats
Series: Palgrave studies in oral history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137438690
Subjects: Historiography; Memory; Social aspects; Oral history; HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal; HISTORY / Latin America / Central America; HISTORY / Latin America / General
Description: "Eleven new essays originally written in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, present diverse scholarly approaches to oral narratives in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds. The essays explore individual and collective memories of conflictive national pasts, the body and emotional memory, subjectivity in re/framing social identities, and visual and performative re/presentations of memory"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Rina Benmayor, Maria Eugenia Cardenal de la Nuez, and Pilar Dominguez Prats; title: 1. "I Was Just One More Among Many" : a Mosaic of Ex-combatant Voices from the Portuguese Colonial War / Angela Campos; title: 2. Voices of Spanish Socialist Trade Unionism During the End of the Franco Regime and the Transition to Democracy / Pilar Dominguez Prats; title: 3. "Gendered" Memories : Women's Narratives from the Southern Cone / Cristina Scheibe Wolff, Joana Maria Pedro, and Janine Gomes da Silva; title: 4. The Healing Effect of Discourses : Body, Emotions and Gender Subjectivity in Basque Nationalism / Miren Llona; title: 5. Lola's Story : The Struggle to Build a Professional Identity with No Good Jobs in Sight / Maria Eugenia Cardenal de la Nuez; title: 6. "Getting Ahead" : The American Dream in the California Agricultural Fields / Magdalena Villarreal; title: 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; title: 8. Oral Accounts and Visual Inscriptions : Narratives Under Heavily Tattooed Skin / Vitor Sergio Ferreira; title: 9. The Black Movement and Race Relations in Brazil : Building New Knowledge Through Online Oral History Materials / Verena Alberti and Amilcar Araujo Pereira; title: 10. Images and Words : Photography and the 1968 Student Movement in Mexico / Alberto del Castillo Troncoso; title: 11. "A Living Museum of Small, Forgotten and Unwanted Memories" : Performing Oral Histories of the Portuguese Dictatorship and Revolution / Joana Craveiro.