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Available
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Publication
Temple University Press (2008), 320 pages
Description
Oral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history interviews are used ""in public,"" they invariably both reflect and shape public memories of the past. Oral History and Public Memories is the only book that explores this relationship, in fourteen case studies of oral history's use in a variety of venues and media around the world. Readers will learn, for example, of oral history based efforts to reclaim community memory in post-apartheid Cape Town, South Africa; of the role of personal testimony in changing public understanding of Japanese American history in the Am
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
320 p.; 6 inches
ISBN
1592131417 / 9781592131419