Daniel James

Doña María's Story

Life History, Memory, and Political Identity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This book is a gem, a gift to the reader, a wonderful read. We learn about a significant part of Argentina's sad modern history at the same time that we are reading a highly sophisticated and well-informed meditation on the oral historian's craft."-- Deborah Levenson, Boston College

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780822324928
• ISBN-10: 082232492X
• Artikelnr.: 21372021

Autorenporträt

Daniel James is Bernardo Mendel Professor of Latin American History at Indiana University. His previous books include Resistance and Integration: Peronism and the Argentine Working Class, 1946–1976 and The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Series ix
Acknowledgments xi
I. Prologue. The Town with No Plaza: Memory and Monuments in Berisso's
Centro Cívico 1
II. Doña María's Testimony 29
III. Interpretive Essays
1. Listening in the Cold: The Practice of Oral History in an Argentine
Meatpacking Community 119
2. "The Case of María Roldán and the Señora with Money Is Very Clear, It's
a Fable": Stories, Anecdotes, and Other Performances in Doña María's
Testimony 157
3. "Tales Told Out on the Borderlands": Reading Doña María's Story for
Gender 213
4. A Poem for Clarita: Niñas Burguesitas and Working-Class Women in
Peronist Argentina 244
IV. Epilogue 281
Notes 299
Index 309