Reminiscences of Karen Malpede : oral history, 2005.

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Reminiscences of Karen Malpede : oral history, 2005.

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.

transcript: 42 p.sound recordings: 2 sound discs (90 min.) : digital ; 3 in.

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Interviewer. From the description of Reminiscences of Karen Malpede : oral history, 2005. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 269260801 Karen Malpede, playwright; Roberta Kosse, composer; Mary Barnard, translator; Sappho, poet. From the description of Sappho and Aphrodite : typescript. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122533639 Karen Malpede, playwright; Mary Barnard, translator; Sappho, poet. From...