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Author Zembrzycki, Stacey

Title According to Baba : a collaborative oral history of Sudbury's Ukrainian Community / Stacey Zembrzycki
Published Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 231 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Shared : oral & public history
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Contents ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations ""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Building: Recreating Home and Community""; ""2 Solidifying: Organized Ukrainian Life""; ""3 Contesting: Confrontational Identities""; ""4 Cultivating: Depression-Era Households""; ""5 Remembering: Baba�s Sudbury""; ""Conclusion""; ""Appendix""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Index""
Summary "Dreams of steady employment in the mining sector led thousands of Ukrainian immigrants to northern Ontario in the early 1900s. As a child, historian Stacey Zembrzycki listened to her baba's stories about Sudbury's small but polarized community and what it was like growing up ethnic during the Depression
According to Baba grew out of those stories, out of a granddaughter's desire to capture the experiences of her grandparents' generation on paper. Eighty-two interviews conducted by Stacey and her grandmother, Olga, laid the groundwork for this insightful and deeply personal social history of one of Canada's most colourful ethnic communities. The interview process also brought to light the challenges of doing collaborative oral history with community members, particularly as Stacey lost authority to her baba, wrestled it back, and eventually came to share it, and as interviewees met questions with nostalgic reminiscences, subversive humour, or impenetrable silence
By providing a realistic glimpse into the hard work that goes into making communities partners in oral history research, this book provides a new paradigm for studying the politics of memory, one that recognizes that people are not passive recipients of their histories but rather counter and create narratives about the past by invoking alternative ways of remembering
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-221) and index
Notes English
Subject Zembrzycki, Olga -- Interviews
Ukrainians -- Ontario -- Sudbury -- Social conditions
Ukrainians -- Ontario -- Sudbury -- Biography
Ukrainians -- Ontario -- Sudbury -- Interviews
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Ukrainians -- Social conditions
Ukrainians
Ontario -- Sudbury (Greater Sudbury)
Genre/Form Biographies
Interviews
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2014397853
ISBN 9780774826952
0774826959
0774826975
9780774826976
0774826983
9780774826983
9780774826969
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