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Dona Maria's Story

Life History, Memory, and Political Identity

Szerző: Daniel James

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Duke University Press

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In this remarkable book historian Daniel James presents the gripping, poignant life-story of Dona Ma...

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Szerző

Daniel James

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2001

oldal

336

EAN

9780822324553

ISBN

0822324555

Enbook ID

04937206

Kiadó

Duke University Press

Súly

621

Méretek

162 x 240 x 29

Teljes leírás

In this remarkable book historian Daniel James presents the gripping, poignant life-story of Dona Maria Roldan, a woman who lived and worked for six decades in the meatpacking community of Berisso, Argentina. A union activist and fervent supporter of Juan and Eva Peron, Dona Maria's evocative testimony prompts James to analyse the promise and problematic nature of using oral sources for historical research. The book thus becomes both fascinating narrative and methodological inquiry. Dona Maria's testimony is grounded in both the local context (based on the author's thirteen years of historical and ethnographic research in Berisso) and a broader national narrative. In this way, it differs from the dominant genre of women's testimonial literature, and much recent ethnographic work in Latin America, which have often neglected historical and communal contextualisation in order to celebrate individual agency and self-construction. James examines in particular the ways that gender influences Dona Maria's representation of her story. He is careful to acknowledge that oral history challenges the historian to sort through complicated sets of motivations and desires-the historian's own wish to uncover "the truth" of an informant's life and the interviewee's hope to make sense of her or his past and encode it with myths of the self. This work is thus James' effort to present his research and his relationship with Dona Maria with both theoretical sophistication and recognition of their mutual affection. While written by a historian, Dona Maria's Story also engages with concerns drawn from such disciplines as anthropology, cultural studies, and literary criticism. It will be especially appreciated by those involved in oral, Latin American, and working-class history.