Sean Field

Turning up the Volume: Dialogues about Memory Create Oral Histories

Abstract This article sketches an overview of South African oral history since the 1970s and argues that while oral history projects have grown rapidly since 2000, insufficient attention has been given to international debates about memory, myth and subjectivity. It then explores the conception of oral history being constructed by ‘dialogues about memory’, and how this furthers our understanding of narrative, agency and identity formation. This conception also compels us to reflect on the position of the oral historian. The article then argues that ‘traces’, especially the mental imagery evoked during acts of remembrance, have implications for conducting and interpreting oral history dialogues. This is in a context shaped by post-apartheid memory politics and our anxieties over the fragility of memory traces and the urgent desire to record and conserve before these traces are lost. But dialogues about memory continue to creatively produce oral histories in the present.

Memory and History: Understanding Memory as Source and Subject . Edited by Joan Tumblety.

women developed their own confident voices long before the researcher arrived on the scene. Adams, rather, gives due recognition to women who for the most were unseen but “quietly” fought for the survival of their families and communities under a brutal regime. Undergraduate students of Chilean history and comparative studies students working on other authoritarian regimes will find value in this book. However, as a history lecturer, I thought the cursory sketch of Chilean twentieth century history, before and during the dictatorship, was insufficient. Moreover, the author seems oblivious of the considerable literature on trauma and memory studies. For example, she makes frequent reference to women’s experiences of political repression as being “traumatic” without any attempt to define this term or to cite relevant literature. Finally, I understand that this is not an academic monograph; however, Adams does make references to gendered roles and identities, and I suspect a deeper gendered theoretical engagement would have produced a more valuable intellectual contribution. In short, while there is much value in Adams’s textured descriptions and analysis of Chilean women’s stories and images, I am not sure that she has told us anything new about the gendered patterns of women’s resistance under a dictatorship.

Public Forgetting: The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again

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