Memory, Subjectivities, And Representation: Approaches To Oral History In Latin America, Portugal, And Spain (palgrave Studies In Oral History)

The Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds have been crucibles for important work in oral history and other fields, but too little has been made accessible to English readers. This collection seeks to enhance and expand access to recent scholarship from the Iberian world that has not been translated or otherwise made available to English speakers. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Introduction: Bridging Boundaries....Pages 1-16 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 “I Was Just One More among Many”: A Mosaic of Ex-combatant Voices from the Portuguese Colonial War....Pages 19-35 Voices of Spanish Socialist Trade Unionism during the End of the Franco Regime and the Transition to Democracy....Pages 37-55 “Gendered” Memories: Women’s Narratives from the Southern Cone....Pages 57-73 Front Matter....Pages 75-75 The Healing Effect of Discourses: Body, Emotions, and Gender Subjectivity in Basque Nationalism....Pages 77-92 Lola’s Story: The Struggle to Build a Professional Identity with No Good Jobs in Sight....Pages 93-109 “Getting Ahead”: The American Dream in the California Agricultural Fields....Pages 111-127 Migration, Sex Work, and Stigma: An Analysis in Biographical Code....Pages 129-146 Front Matter....Pages 147-147 Oral Accounts and Visual Inscriptions: Narratives under Heavily Tattooed Skin....Pages 149-165 The Black Movement and Race Relations in Brazil: Building New Knowledge through Online Oral History Materials....Pages 167-186 Images and Words: Photography and the 1968 Student Movement in Mexico....Pages 187-205 “A Living Museum of Small, Forgotten and Unwanted Memories”: Performing Oral Histories of the Portuguese Dictatorship and Revolution....Pages 207-229 Back Matter....Pages 231-253 This collection presents diverse scholarly approaches to oral narratives in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds. Eleven essays, originally written in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, coalesce around major themes that have long concerned oral historians and social scientists: collective memories of conflictive national pasts, subjectivity in re/framing social identities, and visual and performative re/presentations of identity and public memory. "Eleven new essays originally written in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, present diverse scholarly approaches to oral narratives in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds. The essays explore individual and collective memories of conflictive national pasts, the body and emotional memory, subjectivity in re/framing social identities, and visual and performative re/presentations of memory"--