New directions in queer oral history : archives of disruption / edited by Clare Summerskill, Amy Tooth Murphy and Emma Vickers.

Date:
2022
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"This comprehensive international collection reflects on the practice, purpose and functionality of queer oral history, and in doing so, demonstrates the vibrancy and innovation of this rapidly evolving field. Drawing on the roots of oral history's original commitment to 'history from below', queer oral history has become an indispensable methodology at the heart of queer studies. Expanding and extending the existing canon, this book offers up key observations about queer oral history as a methodology, and how it might be advanced through cutting edge approaches. The collection contains a mix of contributions from established scholars, early career researchers, postgraduate students, archivists and activists, ensuring its accessibility and wide appeal. The go-to reference for queer oral history for scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and community-engaged practitioners, New Directions in Queer Oral History advances rigorous methodological and theoretical debates and constitutes a significant intervention in the world of oral history"-- Provided by publisher.

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London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Physical description

xxiii, 219 pages ; 25 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Archives of disruption / Amy Tooth Murphy, Emma Vickers and Clare Summerskill -- Part 1: Narrating LGBTQ histories : presence, absence and the space between -- (Un)speakable pasts : reflections on working at the edges of queer oral history / Geraldine Fela -- Locating lesbians, finding "gay women", writing queer histories : reflections on oral histories, identity, and community memory / Valerie J. Korinek -- Queer intergenerational reticence : a religious case study / George J. Severs -- Reading both ways : lesbian oral histories and bisexual visibility / Lauren Jae Gutterman -- Finding "evidence of me" through "evidence of us" : transgender oral histories and personal archives speak / Noah Riseman -- Destabilising identities and normative narratives : the methodological challenges of navigating oral history interviews with LGBTQ+ children of Holocaust survivors / Jacob Evoy -- Part 2: Re/making meaning : navigating discourse, composure, and intersubjectivity -- Beyond composure and discomposure in a shifting queer identity narrative / Victoria Golding -- "Fuck the gay movement" : dissemblance and desire in Black AIDS activist oral history / Dan Royles -- Unfinished business : documenting Australian lesbian feminism / Sophie Robinson -- Bisexual women's storytelling and community-building in Toronto / Margaret Robinson -- Filling the boxes ourselves : conducting a queer oral history of bisexuality and multiple-gender attraction / Martha Robinson Rhodes -- Part 3: Making a queer mess : embodiment, affect, and exceeding our limits -- Towards a queer-chronology : telling stories in the queer/ed archives / Jamie A. Lee -- "I gotta go" : mobility as a queer methodology / Anne Balay -- LGBTIQ activism and "insider" interviewing : reflecting on oral histories from the campaign for Australian marriage equality / Shirleene Robinson -- In search of queer composure : queer temporality, intimacy, and affect / Amy Tooth Murphy -- Part 4: Negotiating identity : sharing authority in creative practice -- Dry your eyes, princess : oral testimony and photography : a case study / Emma Vickers -- "It's telling your story to your family" : why positionality matters when interviewing an older lesbian for a verbatim play / Clare Summerskill -- An army of listeners : interviewing lesbians as a practice of liberation for all / El Chenier -- "Free to be me" : oral history research with lesbians and bisexual women seeking asylum in the UK / Jane Traies.

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  • 9780367551148
  • 0367551144