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‘There seems to be a fear that once the floodgates of orality are opened, writing and rationality will be swept out as if by a spontaneous uncontrollable mass of fluid, amorphous material.’ Me getting annoyed when people find ‘oral’ history funny - then the people writing the theory are writing like this 🤭

— Jun 23, 2024 09:22AM

The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History (Oral Public History (Dis))

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‘A spectre is haunting the halls of the academy: the spectre of oral history.’ Attempts to charge oral history with pretensions it does not have. La Republica, a popular and intellectual Italian daily, described it as being an artificial package where things ‘move and talk by themselves.’’ But these ‘things’ are people!!

— Jun 23, 2024 09:21AM