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Alessandro Portelli

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in Rome, Italy

March 21, 1942

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Alessandro Portelli, nato a Roma nel 1942, è considerato tra i fondatori della storia orale. Professore di Letteratura angloamericana all’Università «La Sapienza» di Roma, ha fondato e presiede il circolo Gianni Bosio per la conoscenza critica e la presenza alternativa delle culture popolari. Collabora con la Casa della Memoria e della Storia di Roma e con «il manifesto», «Liberazione» e «l’Unità».

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Tutto il giorno di ieri sui media rimbalzava una notizia ...

Tutto il giorno di ieri sui media rimbalzava una notizia sconvolgente: gli organizzatori del “cosiddetto “Running festival” (ma che razza di nome!) di Trieste avevano deciso, “per il loro bene,” di non invitare atleti africani alla mezza maratona in programma ai primi di maggio e di “prendere soltanto atleti europei”.. Mi era paro un altro terribile segno dei tempi, e avevo mandato qualche riga di Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 4.09 · 2,643 ratings · 285 reviews · 63 distinct works • Similar authors

	They Say in Harlan County: An Oral History (Oxford Oral History Series) 4.20 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Order Has Been Carried Out: History, Memory, and Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome 4.12 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 1999 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History (Oral Public History 4.09 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hard Rain: Bob Dylan, Oral Cultures, and the Meaning of History (The Columbia Oral History Series) 3.79 avg rating — 29 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Battle of Valle Giulia: Oral History and the Art of Dialogue 3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Badlands: Springsteen e l'America: il lavoro e i sogni 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Storie Orali: Racconto, immaginazione, dialogo 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il ginocchio sul collo: L’America, il razzismo, la violenza tra presente, storia e immaginari 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Calendario civile: Per una memoria laica, popolare e democratica degli italiani 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Taccuini americani (Indagini) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1991	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“An interview, then, is a moment in a relationship between times: the time of the events, the time of the telling, and, when we factor in the archive, the time of listening.”
― Alessandro Portelli

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“The inter- view is about the past—like all other historical sources, it provides us with factual information that can be verified and critically scrutinized—but is of the present...These are living voices, voices that speak with us now”
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“The interview gives us access not to the experience but to a verbal rendition of the memory of that experience, generated by the presence of the interviewer.”
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