Abstract
Christina Alexopoulou
INALCO, Paris
Role and position of the receivers of oral testimonies
Initially, we approach the "agreement" of giving oral testimony as an inter-subjective framework for collaboration and creation of a "third space," which is defined by the request of the informant and the position of the researcher, within their transmissive/antitransmissive relationship. Next, we analyse the role of the receiver of the testimony as a guarantor of the subject's narrative continuity who is capable of receiving, symbolically representing and rendering to the wider public the mnemonic reconstructions of the past. Finally, we discuss certain difficulties faced by the receiver of the testimony in carrying out, handling and processing the interviews in relation to the dual nature of an endeavour concerning vacillating mental and historico-social forces.
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