Amy Tooth Murphy et al., "New Directions in Queer Oral History: Archives of Disruption" (Routledge, 2022)
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The Theory of Composure in Queer Oral History
Oral history has come to really kind of grab on to and value this concept that we call composure. It's been credited to both Graham Dawson and Alistair Thompson, both oral historians who work a lot in the field of masculinity. Composure is a social project of understanding each other; it's a communication process. If there's no kind of cultural framework through which you tell a legible story, you can't achieveThat composure cannot be done by one person. So again, that talks about the very particular identities of the two people in the room.
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