Abstract
Katerina Anagnostaki
University of Crete
Oral history and fear: oral testimonies from the 1940s
Researchers involved in collecting oral witnesses regarding the Greek 1940’s are often confronted with an obvious feeling of fear, which stems either from the narrators themselves or from their family environment. This fear usually concerns the kind of information people feel can be allowed to be uncovered during the interview or, on the contrary, should not be revealed for several reasons. How should the researcher evaluate this obvious fear? What does it mean for the way people manage their memory in the present? Moreover, what does this feeling reveal in relation to the public master narrative on World War II and the Civil War in Greece?
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