Remembering: Oral History Performance
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2006), xii, 205 pp.
Contains index
Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
ISBN 978-1-4039-6374-1 (ebook); 978-1-4039-6347-5 (print)
"Drawing on the work of scholars and practitioners such as Augusto Boal, Gloria Anzaldua, and Trinh Minh-ha, these essays advocate oral history and oral history-based performance as means to challenge and expand upon traditional ways of transmitting historical knowledge. The contributors' central concerns are performative aspects of oral history itself and the theatrical or classroom "re-performance" of oral history. The essays detail classroom and public pedagogies, community-based interventions, processes of developing interview-based performances, and the ethical and political implications of oral history as an embodied form of representation." (Publisher description)
1 Introduction: Remembering / Della Pollock, 1
2 Trying To Be Good: Lessons in Oral History and Performance / Alicia J. Rouverol, 19
3 Touchable Stories and the Performance of Infrastructural Memory / Shannon Jackson, 45
4 Bringing Old and Young People Together: An Interview Project / Laurie Lathem, 67
5 Memory and Performance in Staging the Line in Milwaukee: A Play About the Bitter Patrick Cudahy Strike of 1987-1989 / Michael Gordon, 85
6 Remembering Toward Loss: Performing And so there are pieces . . . / Rivka Syd Eisner, 101
7 "Tic(k)": A Performance of Time and Memory / Gretchen A. Case, 129
8 "My Desire is for the Poor to Speak Well of Me" / D. Soyini Madison, 143
9 Experiencing History: A Journey from Oral History to Performance / Natalie M. Fousekis, 167
2 Trying To Be Good: Lessons in Oral History and Performance / Alicia J. Rouverol, 19
3 Touchable Stories and the Performance of Infrastructural Memory / Shannon Jackson, 45
4 Bringing Old and Young People Together: An Interview Project / Laurie Lathem, 67
5 Memory and Performance in Staging the Line in Milwaukee: A Play About the Bitter Patrick Cudahy Strike of 1987-1989 / Michael Gordon, 85
6 Remembering Toward Loss: Performing And so there are pieces . . . / Rivka Syd Eisner, 101
7 "Tic(k)": A Performance of Time and Memory / Gretchen A. Case, 129
8 "My Desire is for the Poor to Speak Well of Me" / D. Soyini Madison, 143
9 Experiencing History: A Journey from Oral History to Performance / Natalie M. Fousekis, 167
