ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|61 pages
Narrating LGBTQ histories: Presence, absence, and the space between
chapter 2|10 pages
Locating lesbians, finding “gay women”, writing queer histories
chapter 5|12 pages
Finding “evidence of me” through “evidence of us”
chapter 6|9 pages
Destabilising identities and normative narratives
part 2|50 pages
Re/making meaning: Navigating discourse, composure, and intersubjectivity
chapter 8|9 pages
“Fuck the gay movement”
chapter 11|10 pages
Filling the boxes in ourselves
part 3|42 pages
Making a queer mess: Embodiment, affect, and exceeding our limits
chapter 14|11 pages
LGBTIQ activism and “insider” interviewing
part 4|41 pages
Negotiating identity: Sharing authority in creative practice