1. Foreword<div>2. Introduction</div><div>Part I Scratching the Silence: The Unexpected as an Outbreak</div><div>3. Introduction to Part I</div><div>4. My Grandfather’s Unknown History</div><div>5. Florence Richard, Childhood Sexual Violence, and the Unsettling of Local History</div><div>6. An Unexpected Gift: Oral History and the Documentation of Michfest</div><div>7. Commentary: The Elaboration of What Has Been Lived</div><div>Part II Between Lies and Half-Truths: The Unexpected as Falsification</div><div>8. Introduction to Part II</div><div>9. The Must-See Play that so Many People Staged: A Mosaic of (False) Memories</div><div>10. New Looks at Old Interviews: Racism and Privilege Around Black Folk Festivities</div><div>11. “Sincere Lies Interest Me”: The Power of Falsehood in Oral History</div><div>12. A Love Story That Never Happened</div><div>13. Commentary: Leftovers, Their Unexpected Forms, and the Act of Gleaning: Re-encounters with Interviews</div><div>Part III Deviating Routes: The Unexpected as a Mnemonic Device</div><div>14. Introduction to Part III</div><div>15. “Who rode in my car? Who do you think? Jesus!”: Subversion and Displacement in the Rereading of an Interview</div><div>16. Metabolizing the Leftovers of Memory</div><div>17. The Unexpected in an Archive: Interferences in a Soccer Memory Collection</div><div>18. Commentary: Revisiting Oral Sources: The Unexpected and the Anticipated in Oral History Praxis</div><div>Part IV The Answer Is Another Subject: The Unexpected as a Generative Device</div><div>19. Introduction to Part IV</div><div>20. Looking for Heroes, I Found Conventional Workers: A Labor Community in the Argentine Dictatorship</div><div>21. The Devious Paths of Memory: Reflections on the Experience of Interviews with Residents of the Caparaó Sierra</div><div>22. “Everything Has Been Said”: Surprising Encounters from Oral Histories in Ireland</div><div>23. Commentary: The Answer is Not Only Another Subject: It Is Also Another Set of Questions</div><div>Part V Nothing but Surprises: The Unexpected as a Given</div><div>24. Introduction to Part V</div><div>25. The Case of the Baffling Bandit</div><div>26. Tragedy, Trauma, and the Transformations of Local Memory</div><div>27. Uncomfortable Stories and Tensions in the Official Memory of an Institution</div><div>28. Commentary: Oral History as a culture of Research</div><div>Part VI Avenues and Openings: The Unexpected as a Method</div><div>29. Introduction to Part VI</div><div>30. Listening to Young Geeks in a Different City’s Cosplay Scene</div><div>31. “Ain’t You Afraid to Be around a Drifter Like Me?”: Beyond the Nothingness and the Fragments of the Life on the Streets</div><div>32. Struggling Through Speech in the Midst of Grief: A Non-interview and the Indigenous Xakriabá Cosmopolitics</div><div>33. Ethnic Classification and Trauma During the Rwandan Genocide</div><div>34. Commentary: How Do We Face the Unexpected? Constitutive Practices of Oral History<br>34. Afterword: Expecting the Unexpected</div>
