Artful shaping : the ethics of fictionalising oral history


Autoria(s): Van Luyn, Ariella
Data(s)

07/07/2010

Resumo

The paper documents the development of an ethical framework for my current PhD project. I am a practice-led researcher with a background in creative writing. My project invovles conducting a number of oral history interviews with individuals living in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. I use the interviews to inform a novel set in Brisbane. In doing so, I hope to provide a lens into a cultural and historical space by creating a rich, textured and vivid narrative while still retaining some of the essential aspects of the oral history. While developing a methodology for fictionalising these oral histories, I have encountered a derserve range of ethical issues. In particular I have had to confront my role as a writer and researcher working with other people’s stories. In order to grapple with the complex ethics of such an engagment, I examine the devices and stratedgies employed by other creative practioners working in similar fields. I focus chielfy on Miguel Barnet’s Biography of a Runaway Slave (published in English in 1968) Dave Eggers’What is the what: The autobiography of Valentino Achek Deng, a novel (2005) in order to understand the complex processes of mediation invloved in the artful shaping of oral histories. The paper explores how I have confronted and resolved ethical considerations in my theoretical and creative work.

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application/pdf

Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/34392/

Relação

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/34392/1/c34392.pdf

http://www.ioha2010prague.cz/

Van Luyn, Ariella (2010) Artful shaping : the ethics of fictionalising oral history. In XVI International Oral History Association Conference (2010 IOHA), 7-1 July 2010, Prague. (Unpublished)

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Fonte

Creative Writing & Literary Studies; Creative Industries Faculty

Palavras-Chave #200101 Communication Studies #210300 HISTORICAL STUDIES #oral history #fiction #ethics #creative writing #methodology #Dave Eggers #Miguel Barnet
Tipo

Conference Paper