Remembering: Oral History Performance

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403963479
• ISBN13: 9781403963475
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"