Narrative and Genre: Contexts and Types of Communication

ISBN-13: 9781138528574 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 201 str.

Paul Thompson

Opis

Any life story, whether a written autobiography or an oral testimony, is shaped not only by the reworkings of experience through memory and re-evaluation, but also by art

Spis treści

1: Introduction; 2: Oral History As Genre; 3: Silences; 4: A Brazilian Worker’s Autobiography in an Unexpected Form; 5: Family Fables; 6: Anecdote as Narrative Resource in Working-Class Life Stories; 7: My Life as Consumer; 8: Distant Homes, Our Genre; 9: The Oral History Interview in a Cross-Cultural Setting; 10: In the Archive, in the Field; 11: Sharing and Reshaping Life Stories

O autorze

Paul Thompson