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Histories of the Self - Personal Narratives and Historical Practice (Hardcover)
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Histories of the Self - Personal Narratives and Historical Practice (Hardcover)
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Histories of the Self interrogates historians' work with personal
narratives. It introduces students and researchers to scholarly
approaches to diaries, letters, oral history and memoirs as sources
that give access to intimate aspects of the past. Historians are
interested as never before in how people thought and felt about
their lives. This turn to the personal has focused attention on the
capacity of subjective records to illuminate both individual
experiences and the wider world within which narrators lived.
However, sources such as letters, diaries, memoirs and oral history
have been the subject of intense debate over the last forty years,
concerning both their value and the uses to which they can be put.
This book traces the engagement of historians of the personal with
notions of historical reliability, and with the issue of
representativeness, and it explores the ways in which they have
overcome the scepticism of earlier practitioners. It celebrates
their adventures with the meanings of the past buried in personal
narratives and applauds their transformation of historical
practice. Supported by case studies from across the globe and
spanning the fifteenth to twenty-first centuries, Histories of the
Self is essential reading for students and researchers interested
in the ways personal testimony has been and can be used by
historians.
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