
An Unauthorized Biography of the World
Oral History on the Front Lines
Michael Riordon(Author)
Between the Lines (Publisher)
Published on 22. September 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-896357-93-5 (ISBN)
Description
An Unauthorized Biography of the World explores the practice of engaged oral history: the difficult, sometimes dangerous work of recovering fragments of human story that have gone missing from the official versions. Michael Riordon has thirty years' experience as a writer and broadcaster in the field. Readers will encounter a gallery of brave, passionate people who gather silenced voices and lost life stories. The canvas is broad, the stakes are high: the battles for First Nations lands in Canada; environmental justice in Chicago; genocide in Peru; homeless people organizing in Cleveland; September 11/01, and after, in New York City; gay survivors of electroshock in Britain; the struggle to preserve a people's identity in Newfoundland; peasant resistance to a huge transnational gold mine in Turkey.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ontario
Canada
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-896357-93-5 (9781896357935)
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10/2004
Between the Lines
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Person
Michael Riordon teaches writing, and has written two books of oral history: Out our Way: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Country (BTL, 1996), and Eating Fire: Family Life on the Queer Side (BTL, 2001)