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Telling Stories
In Telling Stories, Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett argue that personal narratives—autobiographies, oral histories, life history interviews, and memoirs—are an important research tool for understanding the relationship between people and their societies. Gathering examples from throughout the world and from premodern as well as contemporary cultures, they draw from labor history and class analysis, feminist sociology, race relations, and anthropology to demonstrate the value of personal narratives for scholars and students alike. Telling Stories explores why and how personal narratives should be used as evidence, and the methods and pitfalls of their use. The auth...
Histories of the Self
Histories of the Self interrogates historians’ work with personal narratives. It introduces students and researchers to scholarly approaches to diaries, letters, oral history and memoirs as sources that give access to intimate aspects of the past. Historians are interested as never before in how people thought and felt about their lives. This turn to the personal has focused attention on the capacity of subjective records to illuminate both individual experiences and the wider world within which narrators lived. However, sources such as letters, diaries, memoirs and oral history have been the subject of intense debate over the last forty years, concerning both their value and the uses to w...
War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century
How war has been remembered collectively is the central question in this volume. War in the twentieth century is a vivid and traumatic phenomenon which left behind it survivors who engage time and time again in acts of remembrance. This volume, containing essays by outstanding scholars of twentieth-century history, focuses on the issues raised by the shadow of war in this century. The behaviour, not of whole societies or of ruling groups alone, but of the individuals who do the work of remembrance, is discussed by examining the traumatic collective memory resulting from the horrors of the First World War, the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, and the Algerian War. By studying public forms of remembrance, such as museums and exhibitions, literature and film, the editors have succeeded in bringing together a volume which demonstrates that a popular kind of collective memory is still very much alive.
Ordinary Writings, Personal Narratives
Historians have often assumed that the lives of the poor and illiterate can never be known because they have left little record of their existence. This book, however, will establish some of the main themes of a new field of historical study: that of 'ordinary writings' - the improvised writings of the poor and the young.
The Situation and the Story
Taking readers on a tour of some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century, and demonstrates the enduring truth-speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, and Marguerite Duras.
Small Moments
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Roll
A unique collection of short memoir and personal narratives telling the stories of our lives. Featuring works by the following authors: Sandra Branum; Ann Marie Byrd; Tiffany Joy Butler; Cathleen Calbert; Martha Clarkson; Theresa Corbin; Madeline Davis; Francis DiClemente; Kent H. Dixon; Cathy Crenshaw Dohney; Paul Dragavon; Jared Duran; Adina Ferguson; Maureen Tolman Flannery; Renny Murphy Golden; Joan Goodreau; Kevin Heath; Erica Herd; Jane Hertenstein; Jeremiah Horrigan; Marilyn June Janson; Charlotte Jones; Chantal Jules; Marty Kingsbury; Jacqueline M. Koiner, II; Marylee Macdonald; Catherine Magdalena; Stephanie Millett; Christine Minter; Sheryl L. Nelms; Nancy Owen Nelson; Nancy Nicol; Kathleen O'Brien; Hal O'Leary; Helen Peppe; Gabrijel Savic Ra; Venetia Sjogren; Marian Rapoport; Anjie Seewer Reynolds; Molly Rivkin; Mark Saba; Alan L. Steinberg; Terry Meyer Stone; Fran Tempel; Debby Thompson; April C. Thornton; Kerry Trautman; Joe Wade; Sarah L. Webb; Janet Amalia Weinberg; Guinotte Wise; Kirk Wisland and Janet Youngblood.
Personal Narratives
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Interpreting Women's Lives
This groundbreaking multidisciplinary and multicultural examination of women's oral and written documents offers rich insights into the ways that women's voices and life stories can inform scholarly research.
Personal Narratives, Peripheral Theatres: Essays on the Great War (1914–18)
This book is a collection of essays on neglected aspects of the Great War. It begins by asking what exactly was so "Great" about it, before turning to individual studies of various aspects of the war. These fall broadly into two categories. Firstly personal, micro-narratives that deal directly with the experience of war, often derived from contemporary interest in diaries and oral histories. Presenting both a close-up view of the viscerality, and the tedium and powerlessness of personal situations, these same narratives also address the effects of the war on hitherto under-regarded groups such as children and animals. Secondly, the authors look at the impact of the course of the war on theatres, often left out in reflections on the main European combatants and therefore not part of the regular iconography of the trenches in places such as Denmark, Canada, India, the Levant, Greece and East Africa.
