Oral History Forum - Special Issue Launch
19/May/2010 10:56 AM Filed in: Announcements
The Canadian Oral History Association and Athabasca University Press are pleased to announce the launch of an open-source, special edition of the Oral History Forum d’histoire orale,“Remembering Family, Analyzing Home: Oral History and the Family,” during the 2010 annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association at Concordia University; this issue may be accessed at http://www.oralhistoryforum.ca.
Guest-edited by Katrina Srigley and Stacey Zembrzycki, this collection of international and interdisciplinary scholarship brings family memories and the archives that house them into scholarly focus. Using the latest approaches to digital storytelling and the analysis of memoryscapes, as well as interviews, photographs, artefacts from personal collections, annotated transcripts, and audio and video clips, the articles explore how and why people construct their recollections in the manner that they do, highlight the journeys of self-discovery that are often a part of remembering, and interrogate the role of researchers in the memory-making process. In doing so, “Remembering Family, Analyzing Home” views families, and memories of family and home, as sites where past and present, myth and experience, individual and collective converge. Intricate social and cultural constructs that cannot be understood through simple binary notions, families are complex, conflicted, and constantly changing entities. Indeed, the landscapes of family are of historical interest to us because when we venture into these worlds we reveal different ways of knowing and memorializing our pasts.
Table of Contents
Articles:
Katrina Srigley and Stacey Zembrzycki, “Introduction to ‘Remembering Family, Analyzing Home: Oral History and the Family.’”
Families As Archives: Sites of Remembering
Katrina Srigley, “Stories of Strife? Memories of the Great Depression.”
Alexander Freund, “Creating Transnational Family Memories: A Canadian Family Talks About Oma’s Life in Nazi Germany.”
Lainie Jones, “Family Puzzles: Pictures of My Mother’s Life, Pieces of Myself.”
John Wolford and Katherine Finch, “The Half Life of Leah Jackson Wolford.”
Peter Lewis, “A Remembered Soundscape: A British Family Listens to the Wireless in the 1930s and 1940s.”
Families As Archives: Sources of Identity and Experience
Milena Buziak, “Someone Between: Searching for Identity Through Performance.”
Tina Block, “‘Toilet-seat prayers’ and Impious Fathers: Interrogating Religion and the Family in Oral Histories of the Postwar Pacific Northwest.”
Sharon Utakis and Nelson Reynoso, “‘No Tengo Otra Opción – Ya Me Voy’: Stories of Family Separation Told by Dominican Immigrants.”
Robert Rutherdale, “Just Nostalgic Family Men? Off-the-Job Family Time, Providing, and Oral Histories of Fatherhood in Postwar Canada, 1945-1975.”
Kathleen Ryan, “Beyond Kinship: Constructing Family Through Military Service.”
Reviews:
Erin Jessee, People and Their Pasts by Paul Ashton and Hilda Kean.
Rosemary O’Flaherty, “Megaprojects” by Joy Parr and Jon van der Veen.
Anna Sheftel, They Called Me Mayer July by Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett.
Anna Wilkinson, “[murmur]” by Shawn Micallef et al.
Table of Contents
Articles:
Katrina Srigley and Stacey Zembrzycki, “Introduction to ‘Remembering Family, Analyzing Home: Oral History and the Family.’”
Families As Archives: Sites of Remembering
Katrina Srigley, “Stories of Strife? Memories of the Great Depression.”
Alexander Freund, “Creating Transnational Family Memories: A Canadian Family Talks About Oma’s Life in Nazi Germany.”
Lainie Jones, “Family Puzzles: Pictures of My Mother’s Life, Pieces of Myself.”
John Wolford and Katherine Finch, “The Half Life of Leah Jackson Wolford.”
Peter Lewis, “A Remembered Soundscape: A British Family Listens to the Wireless in the 1930s and 1940s.”
Families As Archives: Sources of Identity and Experience
Milena Buziak, “Someone Between: Searching for Identity Through Performance.”
Tina Block, “‘Toilet-seat prayers’ and Impious Fathers: Interrogating Religion and the Family in Oral Histories of the Postwar Pacific Northwest.”
Sharon Utakis and Nelson Reynoso, “‘No Tengo Otra Opción – Ya Me Voy’: Stories of Family Separation Told by Dominican Immigrants.”
Robert Rutherdale, “Just Nostalgic Family Men? Off-the-Job Family Time, Providing, and Oral Histories of Fatherhood in Postwar Canada, 1945-1975.”
Kathleen Ryan, “Beyond Kinship: Constructing Family Through Military Service.”
Reviews:
Erin Jessee, People and Their Pasts by Paul Ashton and Hilda Kean.
Rosemary O’Flaherty, “Megaprojects” by Joy Parr and Jon van der Veen.
Anna Sheftel, They Called Me Mayer July by Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett.
Anna Wilkinson, “[murmur]” by Shawn Micallef et al.