Unauthorized Biography of the World
Oral History on the Front Lines
Published on 8. October 2004
320 pages
978-1-897071-76-2 (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 peoples identity in Newfoundland; peasant resistance to a huge transnational gold mine in Turkey.
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Michael Riordon teaches writing, and has written four books of oral history: Our Way to Fight: Peace-Work Under Siege in Israel-Palestine, Eating Fire: Family Life on the Queer Side, An Unauthorized Biography of the World, and Out Our Way: Gay and Lesbian Life in Rural Canada. He lives near Picton, Ontario.
Content
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1: Finding Voice, Making Sense
- 2: Kanien'keha/Ts'eouli (First Nations, Canada)
- 3: Land and Life (First Nations, Canada)
- 4: Umut/Hope (Turkey)
- 5: The Messenger (Chicago, Illinois)
- 6: The Gale Began to Rise (Newfoundland, Canada)
- 7: The Whole Truth (Peru)
- 8: Passion in the Archives (Canada)
- 9: 9/11/01 (New York)
- 10: 9/11/01 + 2 (New York)
- 11: History on the Floor (Labour, Canada)
- 12: Turning the Tables (On the Author)
- 13: A Really Tender One-Night Stand (gay, Canada)
- 14: Keep Asking Questions! (Cleveland, Ohio)
- 15: A Map of the Holy Land (Israel-Palestine)
- Oral History Resources List
