Turning up the Volume: Dialogues about Memory Create Oral Histories

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dc.contributor.authorField, Sean
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-29T13:48:24Z
dc.date.available2018-05-29T13:48:24Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.updated2016-01-13T08:46:01Z
dc.description.abstractThis article sketches an overview of South African oral history since the 1970s and argues that while oral history projects have grown rapidly since 2000, insufficient attention has been given to international debates about memory, myth and subjectivity. It then explores the conception of oral history being constructed by ‘dialogues about memory’, and how this furthers our understanding of narrative, agency and identity formation. This conception also compels us to reflect on the position of the oral historian. The article then argues that ‘traces’, especially the mental imagery evoked during acts of remembrance, have implications for conducting and interpreting oral history dialogues. This is in a context shaped by post-apartheid memory politics and our anxieties over the fragility of memory traces and the urgent desire to record and conserve before these traces are lost. But dialogues about memory continue to creatively produce oral histories in the present.
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582470802416393
dc.identifier.apacitationField, S. (2008). Turning up the Volume: Dialogues about Memory Create Oral Histories. <i>South African Historical Journal</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28187en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationField, Sean "Turning up the Volume: Dialogues about Memory Create Oral Histories." <i>South African Historical Journal</i> (2008) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28187en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationField, S. (2008). Turning up the volume: Dialogues about memory create oral histories. South African Historical Journal, 60(2), 175-194.
dc.identifier.ris TY - AU - Field, Sean AB - This article sketches an overview of South African oral history since the 1970s and argues that while oral history projects have grown rapidly since 2000, insufficient attention has been given to international debates about memory, myth and subjectivity. It then explores the conception of oral history being constructed by ‘dialogues about memory’, and how this furthers our understanding of narrative, agency and identity formation. This conception also compels us to reflect on the position of the oral historian. The article then argues that ‘traces’, especially the mental imagery evoked during acts of remembrance, have implications for conducting and interpreting oral history dialogues. This is in a context shaped by post-apartheid memory politics and our anxieties over the fragility of memory traces and the urgent desire to record and conserve before these traces are lost. But dialogues about memory continue to creatively produce oral histories in the present. DA - 2008 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - South African Historical Journal LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2008 T1 - Turning up the Volume: Dialogues about Memory Create Oral Histories TI - Turning up the Volume: Dialogues about Memory Create Oral Histories UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28187 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/28187
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationField S. Turning up the Volume: Dialogues about Memory Create Oral Histories. South African Historical Journal. 2008; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28187.en_ZA
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Historical Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.sourceSouth African Historical Journal
dc.source.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rshj20
dc.subject.otherOral histories
dc.subject.otherdialogues
dc.subject.othermemory
dc.subject.othernarrative
dc.subject.otheragency
dc.subject.otheridentity
dc.subject.othervisual traces
dc.titleTurning up the Volume: Dialogues about Memory Create Oral Histories
dc.typeJournal Article
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