Reminiscences of Karen Malpede : oral history, 2005.

Biographical Note

Interviewer.

Scope and Contents

Born Texas, childhood: Evanston, Illinois; family conflict; education: University of Wisconsin, Columbia University; career; author/playwright, theater critic; 9/11: volunteer work with Red Cross, view from Brooklyn Promenade; Interview work for Columbia University's September 11th Oral History Project: overcoming distrust from non-white interviewees, anti-Iraq War sentiment; experience of interviewees: questioning religion, misogyny/homophobia within firehouse culture, survivor guilt, renewed interest in politics post-9/11, conflict between official/media narrative and individual experience; interviewing strategies; benefits of interviewing: compiling book of 9/11 short stories, theater of witness.

Subjects

• Albarelli, Gerry, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Malpede, Karen--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Personal narratives.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

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