Metaphors of Self in History

Subjectivity, Oral Narrative, and Immigration Studies

Bibliographic Data

ID23249209
AuthorsVirginia Yans-Mclaughlin, Virginia Yans‐mclaughlin (corresponding author)
Year1991
Pages254-284
Publication date1991-01-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueImmigration reconsidered (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195055108.003.0010
OpenAlexW2493590444
ISBN9780195055108
LanguageEN
Citations received10

This chapter explores subjective documents and their relationship to immigration and ethnic studies, fields that historically have found these sources both appealing and problematic. By “subjective documents”, it refers to a broad class of evidence that reveals the participant's view of experiences in which he had been involved. They include autobiographies, life histories, letters, oral narratives, interviews, and court records. The discussion here familiarizes readers with some recent debates over the use and creation of this type of data, giving particular emphasis to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and textual analysis. Looking at the oral interview or narrative exposes both the unique peculiarities of these data and scholarly ambivalence about subjective sources.

Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Hermeneutics · Immigration · Literature · Lived experience · Narrative · Oral history · Phenomenology (philosophy) · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Subjectivity · Anthropology · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Social Psychology

Tools

Open DOILibgen