Listening on the edge : : oral history in the aftermath of crisis / / edited by Mark Cave and Stephen M. Sloan.

"From the headlines of local newspapers to the coverage of major media outlets, scenes of war, natural disaster, political revolution and ethnic repression greet readers and viewers at every turn. What we often fail to grasp, however, despite numerous treatments of events is the deep meaning an...

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Superior document:Oxford oral history series
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Place / Publishing House:New York : : Oxford University Press,, 2014.
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Oxford oral history series.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (321 pages) :; illustrations.
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-277) and index.
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Table of Contents:
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  • Introduction: What Remains: Reflections on Crisis Oral History, Mark Cave
  • Part I: Clamor
  • 1. When All is Lost: Metanarrative in the Oral History of Hanifa, Survivor of Srebrenica, Selma Leydesdorff
  • Oral history by Selma Leydesdorff with "Hanifa," Refugee camp, East Bosnia, April 2004
  • 2. "To Dream My Family Tonight": Listening to Stories of Grief and Hope among Hazaras Refugees in Australia,
  • Denise Phillips
  • Oral histories by Denise Phillips with Reza and Juma, Brisbane and Melbourne, Australia, 2004-2011
  • 3. Exhuming the Self: Trauma and Student Survivors of the Shootings at Virginia Tech, Tamara Kennelly and Susan E. Fleming-Cook
  • Oral histories by Susan E. Fleming Cook with Yang Kim, Derek O'Dell, and Kristina Heeger-Anderson, Blacksburg, Virginia, 2009-2010
  • 4. Talking Cure: Trauma, Narrative, and the Cuban Rafter Crisis, Elizabeth Campisi
  • Oral histories by Elizabeth Campisi with Cuban Rafter Crisis survivors conducted in Miami, Florida, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Rochester, New York, 1998-2001
  • 5. In the Ghost Forest: Listening to Tutsi Rescapes, Taylor Krauss
  • Oral histories by Taylor Krauss with Rwandan Rescapes, Kigali, Rwanda, 2007-2008.
  • 6. The Continuing and Unfinished Present: Oral History and Psychoanalysis in the Aftermath of Terror, Ghislaine Boulanger
  • Part II: Resonance
  • 7. Unlocked: Perspective and the New Orleans Prison Evacuation Crisis, Mark Cave
  • Oral histories by Mark Cave with members of the Louisiana Department of Corrections, Angola, Pineville, and Keithville, Louisiana, March 23 and 24, June 17 and 18, 2009
  • 8. Living Too in Murder City: Oral History as Alternative Perspective to the Drug War in Ciudad Juarez, Eric Meringer
  • Oral histories by Eric Rodrigo Meringer with Juarez residents Jonathan, Rosa and Raul, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, 2009-2010
  • 9. Until Our Last Breath: Voices of Poisoned Workers in China, Karin Mak
  • Oral histories by Karin Mak with "Ren," "Min," "Fu," and "Wu," Huizhou, Guangdong and rural Sichuan, China, August and September, 2007
  • 10. Woven Together: Attachment to Place in the Aftermath of Disaster, Perspectives from Four Continents,
  • Eleonora Rohland, Maike Bocker, Gitte Cullmann, Ingo Haltermann, Franz Mauelshagen
  • Oral histories by Eleonora Rohland, Maike Bocker, Gitte Cullmann, and Ingo Haltermann with residents of New Orleans, Louisiana; Accra, Ghana; eastern Brandenburg, Germany; and Chaiten, Chile, 2009-2010
  • 11. Smile Through the Tears: Life, Art, and the Rwandan Genocide, Steven High
  • Oral history by Jessica Silva with Rupert Bazambanza, Montreal, Canada, June 3 and 12 and July 6, 2008
  • 12. A Spiritual War: Crises of Faith in Combat Chaplains from Iraq and Afghanistan, David Peters
  • Interviews by David W. Peters with "Christina," "Michael," "Timothy," "Craig," and "George," Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, 2011
  • 13. A Long Song: Oral History in the Time of Emergency and After, Mary Marshall Clark
  • Oral histories by Gerry Albarelli and Temma Kaplan with Mohammad Bilal-Mizra, Talat Hamdani, Zaheer Jaffery, Salman Jaffery, and Zohra Saed, New York City, October 2001 to June 2005
  • Conclusion: The Fabric of Crisis: Approaching the Heart of Oral History, Stephen Sloan
  • Contributors
  • Index.