Oral History and Memory: A Personal Journey

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  • Margaret Randall American-born writer, photographer, activist and academic. Born in New York City, she lived for many years in Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua, and spent time in North Vietnam during the last months of the U.S. war in that country. She has written extensively on her experiences abroad and back in the United States, and has taught at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and other colleges.

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https://doi.org/10.7203/KAM.6.7605

Keywords:

testimonio, literatura testimonial, América Latina, feminismo, memoria, Casa de las Américas, Cuba, Margaret Randall

Abstract

Abstract: Autobiographical essay by Margaret Randall on her experience as a cultural and social activist who focused part of her work in Oral History. “How I got into doing oral history was simple. The way I went about it responded to my lack of formal training—I had no university degree, wasn’t an anthropologist or ethnographer. In line with my innate pragmatism, I wanted to know and so I asked.

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Bibliography Barnet, Miguel (1966). Biografía de un cimarrón. Havana: Instituto del libro. Burgos-Debray, Elizabeth (1982). Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació la conciencia. Havana: Casa de las Américas. Folger, Tim. “Does the Universe Exist if We’re Not Looking?”. Discover Magazine. (June 2000): 44-45. García Alonso, Aida (1968). Manuela la Mexicana. Havana: Casa de las Américas. Poniatowska, Elena (1971). La noche de Tlatelolco. Mexico DF: Siglo XXI. Randall, Margaret (1972). La mujer cubana ahora.Havana: Cuban Book Institute. Randall, Margaret (1974). Cuban Women Now. Ontario, The Women’s Press. Randall, Margaret (1975). Spirit of the People: Vietnamese Women Two Years from the Geneva Accords,Vancouver: New Star Books. Randall, Margaret (1977). Somos millones, la vida de Doris María, combatiente nicaraguense.Mexico City, Extemporaneos. Randall, Margaret (1978). Doris Tijerino, Inside the Nicaraguan Revolution, Vancouver: New Star Books. Randall, Margaret (1978b). El pueblo no solo es testigo: la historia de Dominga, Río Piedras: Puerto Rico. Randall, Margaret (1978c). No se puede hacer la revolución sin nosotras, Havana: Casa de las Américas. Randall, Margaret (1981). Sandino’s Daughters. Vancouver: New Star Books. Randall, Margaret (1983). Testimonios.San José: Alforja Centro de Estudios de Participación. Randall, Margaret (1983b). Christians in the Nicaraguan Revolution. Vancouver: New Star Books,1983. Randall, Margaret (1984). Risking a Somersault in the Air: Conversations with Nicaraguan Writers. San Francisco: Solidarity Publications. Randall, Margaret (1990).Coming Home: Peace Without Complacency. Albuquerque: West End Press. Randall, Margaret (1994). Sandino’s Daughters Revisited, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. Randall, Margaret (1996). The Price You Pay: The Hidden Cost of Women’s Relationship to Money.New York: Routledge. Randall, Margaret (2001).Where They Left You for Dead / Halfway Home. Berkeley: EdgeWork Books. Randall, Margaret (2002). When I Look Into the Mirror and See You: Women, Terror, and Resistance.New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. Randall, Margaret (2007). Stones Witness. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press. Randall, Margaret (2009).Their Backs to the Sea, San Antonio: Wings Press. Randall, Margaret (2010). My Town.San Antonio:Wings Press. Randall, Margaret (2011).Ruins. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Randall, Margaret (2013).The Rhizome as a Field of Broken Bones, San Antonio: Wings Press. Randall, Margaret (2014). About Little Charlie Lindbergh. San Antonio: Wings Press. Randall, Margaret ; Moreno, Ángel Antonio (1979).Sueños y realidades de un guajiricantor . Mexico D.F. : Siglo XXI. Stoll, David (1999). Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans. Colorado: Westview Press. Walsh, Rodolfo (1957).Operación masacre. Buenos Aires, Ediciones Sigla.

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Published

2015-12-25

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Randall, M. (2015). Oral History and Memory: A Personal Journey. Kamchatka. Revista De análisis Cultural., (6), 293–303. https://doi.org/10.7203/KAM.6.7605
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No. 6 (2015): Avatares del testimonio en América Latina

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3. Testimonio y comunidades subalternas

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