Drifting: Feminist oral history and the study of the last female drifters in Iceland

This paper examines the story of the last female drifters in Iceland from the voices of women who remembered them. It examines the advantages of the woman-on-woman oral history interview when obtaining women’s perspectives on women’s history. An examination of women’s narrative techniques suggests t...

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Published in:Feminist Research
Main Author: Eygerðardóttir, Dalrún J.
Other Authors: Sagnfræði- og heimspekideild (HÍ), Faculty of History and Philosophy (UI), Hugvísindasvið (HÍ), School of Humanities (UI), Háskóli Íslands, University of Iceland
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Gatha Cognition 2018
Subjects:
Metoo
Women’s history
Narrative dances
Women’s oral tradition
Female drifters
Feminist oral history
Sagnadansar
Flökkufólk
Munnleg saga
Munnleg geymd
Kvennasaga
Konur
Iceland
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/753
https://doi.org/10.21523/gcj2.18020101
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Summary:This paper examines the story of the last female drifters in Iceland from the voices of women who remembered them. It examines the advantages of the woman-on-woman oral history interview when obtaining women’s perspectives on women’s history. An examination of women’s narrative techniques suggests that women’s narrative style is often consistent with a conversational style; therefore it is important to construct a space in woman-on-woman oral history interviews that carries a sense of place for a conversation. It also examines the woman-on-woman oral history interview as a continuation of women’s oral tradition in Iceland, especially an oral tradition from medieval Iceland called a narrative dance (ice. sagnadans). Lastly, it examines the shared features of the Icelandic #Metoo event stories and the Icelandic narrative dances, in relation to woman-on-woman oral history interviews. Peer Reviewed

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