Dona Maria's Story - Life History, Memory, and Political Identity

"This book is a gem, a gift to the reader, a wonderful read. We learn about a significant part of Argentina's sad modern history at the same time that we are reading a highly sophisticated and well-informed meditation on the oral historian's craft."-- Deborah Levenson, Boston College

List of contents

About the Series ix

Acknowledgments xi

I. Prologue. The Town with No Plaza: Memory and Monuments in Berisso's Centro Cívico 1

II. Doña María's Testimony 29

III. Interpretive Essays

1. Listening in the Cold: The Practice of Oral History in an Argentine Meatpacking Community 119

2. "The Case of María Roldán and the Señora with Money Is Very Clear, It's a Fable": Stories, Anecdotes, and Other Performances in Doña María's Testimony 157

3. "Tales Told Out on the Borderlands": Reading Doña María's Story for Gender 213

4. A Poem for Clarita: Niñas Burguesitas and Working-Class Women in Peronist Argentina 244

IV. Epilogue 281

Notes 299

Index 309

About the author

Daniel James is Bernardo Mendel Professor of Latin American History at Indiana University. His previous books include Resistance and Integration: Peronism and the Argentine Working Class, 1946–1976 and The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers, also published by Duke University Press.

Summary

Suitable for those involved in oral, Latin American, and working-class history, this book presents the life-story of Dona Maria Roldan, a woman who lived and worked for six decades in the meatpacking community of Berisso, Argentina.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel James, James, Daniel James
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.01.2001
• EAN: 9780822324553
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2455-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 238 mm x 163 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 628 g
• Illustrations: 9 b&w photographs
• Series: Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu; Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries