Whose story? Whose memory? : Multiple readings of oral-history life accounts of socialist era

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Whose story? Whose memory? : Multiple readings of oral-history life accounts of socialist era
Original language description
The chapter reports on research into the little-known process of how documents of memory, in this case biographical narratives of life under the communist regime, are received by members of the community of memory. The research is based on an experimentin which three generations of family members (two generations of eye-witnesses of communism and one post-communist generation) were asked to infer the political identity of narrators from very short fragments of biographical texts concerning the communist era. Using a semiotic approach, the author performs a detailed analysis of reader cooperation with these excerpts of biographical texts in their formulation of an acceptable interpretation of the narratives. The results show that narrative texts do notcirculate in a society as a kind of 'ready-made', canned human experience, but they are actively interpreted by readers. Members of all generations displayed a competence to interact with the fragments of narratives and to skilfully inte
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP404%2F10%2F0790" target="_blank" >GAP404/10/0790: Institutions in life stories. A multilevel comparative analysis of life stories of three groups of actors in the Czech socialist society (1948-1989)</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Constructing Narratives of Continuity and Change : A transdisciplinary approach to researching lives
ISBN
978-0-415-73227-7
Number of pages of the result
13
Pages from-to
66-78
Number of pages of the book
187
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
New York
UT code for WoS chapter
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