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The Canadian oral history reader / edited by Kristina R. Llewellyn, Alexander Freund, and Nolan Reilly.

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McGill-Queen's University Press, [2015]

Oral history -- Canada -- Case studies.

Oral History -- Methodology.

Historiography.

Carleton library ; 231.

9780773544963 (pbk.)

9780773544956 (hc.)

xii, 388 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Alexander Freund, Kristina R. Llewellyn, and Nolan Reilly -- Section one: Methodology. Methodology for recording oral histories in the Aboriginal community / Brian Calliou ; Sharing authority with baba / Stacey Zembrzychi ; Oral history and ethical practice after TCPS2 / Nancy Janovicek ; Legal issues regarding oral histories / Jill Jarvis-Tonus -- Section two: Interpretation. Reflections on the politics and praxis of working-class oral histories / Joan Sangster ; Productive tensions: feminist readings of women teachers' oral histories / Kristina R. Llewellyn ; A Canadian family talks about oma's life in Nazi Germany: three-generational interviews and communicative memory / Alexander Feund ; Oral history, narrative strategies, and Native American historiography / Julie Cruikshank -- Section three: Preservation and presentation. Hidden from historians: preserving lesbian oral history in Canada / Elise Chenier ; Oral history as process-generated data / Alexander Freund ; "When I was your age": bearing witness in Holocaust education in Montreal / Stacey Zembrzycki and Steven High ; Listening and learning with life stories of human rights violations / Bronwen Low and Emmanuelle Sonntag -- Section four: Advocacy. Narrative wisps of the Och♯“kiwi S♯±pi past: a journey in recovering collective memories / Winona Wheeler ; I can hear Lois now: corrections to my story of the internment of Japanese Canadians / Pamela Sugiman ; Contested memories: efforts of the powerful to silence former inmates' histories of life in an institution for "mental defectives" / Claudia Malacrida ; "Don't speak for me": practising oral history amid the legacies of conflict / Joy Parr ; Postscript / Ronald J. Grele -- Additional readings in Canadian oral history: 1980-2012 / Kristina R. Llewellyn and Dana Nowak.

These essays explore fundamental and often thorny aspects in oral history methodology, interpretation, preservation and presentation, and advocacy. In plain language, they explain how to conduct research with indigenous communities, navigate difficult relationships with informants, and negotiate issues of copyright, slander, and libel. The authors ask how people's memories and stories can be used as historical evidence - and whether it is ethical to use them at all. Their detailed and compelling case studies draw readers into the thrills and predicaments of recording people's most intimate experiences, and refashioning them in transcripts and academic analyses. They also consider how to best present and preserve this invaluable archive of Canadian memories.--Provided by publisher.

Freund, Alexander, 1969-

Llewellyn, Kristina R., 1976-

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