They Say in Harlan County - An Oral History

Zusatztext By any standards, this is a remarkable and compelling work. Informationen zum Autor Alessandro Portelli is Professor of American Literature at the University of Rome-La Sapienza. He is the author of The Death of Luigi Trastulli: Form and Meaning in Oral History; The Text and the Voice: Speaking, Writing, and Democracy in American Literature; The Battle of Valle Giulia: Oral History and the Art of Dialogue; and The Order Has Already Been Carried Out: History, Memory and Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome. Klappentext This book is a historical and cultural interpretation of a symbolic place in the United States, Harlan County, Kentucky, from pioneer times to the beginning of the third millennium, based on a painstaking and creative montage of more than 150 oral narratives and a wide array of secondary and archival matter. Zusammenfassung This book is a historical and cultural interpretation of a symbolic place in the United States, Harlan County, Kentucky, from pioneer times to the beginning of the third millennium, based on a painstaking and creative montage of more than 150 oral narratives and a wide array of secondary and archival matter.

Product details

• Authors: Alessandro Portelli, Portelli Alessandro
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2010
• EAN: 9780199735686
• ISBN: 978-0-19-973568-6
• No. of pages: 496
• Series: Oxford Oral History Series; Oxford Oral History Series; Oxford Oral History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Oral History, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Kentucky, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas