Shamim Hossain

Transitional Life of Viola Shamim Hossain

The story of the transition of Viola, a real oral narrative as the human subject research--Oral History of the author's project/dissertation for fall 2003, took place in a form of a book. The author collected the oral testimony of Viola through an interview method in the field studies strategy as an investigator.
Since it was a research project, the author has added some more written materials to reshape the text into a book form.

This book reflects the new concept of work for a female minority's oral narrative that associated with the current issues of all categories of women such as Native Americans, blacks, white working classes, Latinas, Asians, Mexicans, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, Buddhists, Hindus, and all others. It also explores all areas of social sciences that impacted on Viola's social, economical, and political ideas in one hand and gender, race, ethnic, and culture on the other hand. The basic interests of oral history are for the women's liberation movements, women's politics, and women's experiences in the United States and in the world. Eventually, Viola sustained herself in the diverse country like America that was found through her oral testimony. The field workers like feminists asserted that the new concept of work should be preserved in the social context for the historical interpretation of humanitarian reforms. It is a product of the feminists.