Penny Summerfield

Histories of the Self (eBook, ePUB)

Personal Narratives and Historical Practice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Histories of the Self introduces students and researchers to scholarly approaches to diaries, letters, oral history and memoirs as sources that give access to intimate aspects of the past. Supported by case studies, it is essential reading for students and researchers interested in how personal testimony has been and can be used by historians.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429945298
• Artikelnr.: 56836526

Autorenporträt

Penny Summerfield is Professor Emerita of Modern History at the University of Manchester. She is the author of numerous publications using a range of genres of personal narrative, notably Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives: Discourse and Subjectivity in Oral Histories of the Second World War (1998) and Contesting Home Defence: Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction 'Things happen in your life, you see, you never
know what is going to happen' Terminology The turn to the personal Archives
Structure of the book Chapter 2. Historians' Uses of Letters Reading
letters for fact Letter-writing as a social and cultural practice: the case
of war letters Gender and the letter Epistolary constructions of the self
Conclusion Chapter 3. Historians and the Diary The diarist as observer The
diary as a 'technology of the self' Gender and the diary: the making of
masculinity Contradictions and incoherence The diary and the psyche The
diary and privacy The public and the private Conclusion Chapter 4.
Autobiography, the Memoir and the Historian Reading memoir for fact Reading
for subjectivity Gendered subjectivities and models of autobiography The
present meets the past Audience Rethinking the past for the present
Conclusion Chapter 5. Oral History and Historical Practice Reliability and
the cultural turn Public discourse, gender, and personal recall Personal
memory and popular culture Evasions and silences Conclusion Chapter 6.
Representativeness Historians and the sample Cultural criteria of selection
The luminosity of the single case The exceptional normal Conclusion
Chapter 7. Conclusion Authenticity Multiple genres Alternative genres and
new directions