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. The essays collected in this volume present the most current scholarship straddling the rich intersection between oral history and performance, and together suggest ways for scholars and performers to use oral history to challenge more traditional modes of knowledge.

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Book Title: Remembering
Book Subtitle: Oral History Performance
Editors: Della Pollock
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-7958-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6347-5Published: 07 October 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-7958-2Published: 28 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2731-5673
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5681
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 205
Topics: Cultural History, Social History, Theatre and Performance Studies, Screen Studies, Historiography and Method, Oral History

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