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Ordinary Lives Illuminated: Writing Oral History

By: Jean Gandesbery
Publication: The Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 1
Date: Winter 1990

Summary: Gandesbery argues that students introduced to oral history writing learn to attend closely to the stories of others, and discover that "ordinary lives" are not ordinary at all.

 

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