Analysing the Role of Memory in Oral History with respect to Urvashi Butalia's The Other Side of Silence

[...]Butalia critiques the validity of the mainstream history that dwells on recorded facts. Donald A. Ritchie, in his book Doing Oral History, mentions that in the case of oral historians, the source of information will be "first-person observations of witnesses of events great and small"...

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Published in:Sanglap : journal of literary and cultural inquiry 2023-12, Vol.10 (1), p.5-14
Main Author: Chaithanya, V
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Emotions
Folklore
Historians
Historiography
history of emotion
Information sources
Irish history
memory and history
Narratives
Oral history
oral narratives
partition historiography
Rape
Storytelling
subaltern history
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Summary:[...]Butalia critiques the validity of the mainstream history that dwells on recorded facts. Donald A. Ritchie, in his book Doing Oral History, mentions that in the case of oral historians, the source of information will be "first-person observations of witnesses of events great and small" in order to learn "what sense those people made of the events in their own lives. [...]Butalia explores the human element of emotions in her approach to history. By pointing out the constructed quality of her 'history', she associates history with the art of storytelling. [...]narrative mode can demote the status of History as 'the collection of facts' and can present the same facts as a narrative from one perspective.
ISSN:2349-8064
DOI:10.35684/JLCI.2023.10101