In this Book
Locating Life Stories: Beyond East-West Binaries in (Auto)Biographical Studies
Book
2012
Published by:
University of Hawai'i Press
summary
The thirteen essays in this volume come from Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Malaysia, South Africa, and Hawai‘i. With a shared focus on the specific local conditions that influence the ways in which life narratives are told, the authors engage with a variety of academic disciplines, including anthropology, history, media studies, and literature, to challenge claims that life writing is an exclusively Western phenomenon. Addressing the common desire to reflect on lived experience, the authors enlist interdisciplinary perspectives to interrogate the range of cultural forms available for representing and understanding lives.
Contributors: Maria Faini, Kenneth George, Philip Holden, David T. Hill, Craig Howes, Bryan Kuwada, Kirin Narayan, Maureen Perkins, Peter Read, Tony Simoes da Silva, Mathilda Slabbert, Gerry van Klinken, Pei-yi Wu.
30 illus.
Contributors: Maria Faini, Kenneth George, Philip Holden, David T. Hill, Craig Howes, Bryan Kuwada, Kirin Narayan, Maureen Perkins, Peter Read, Tony Simoes da Silva, Mathilda Slabbert, Gerry van Klinken, Pei-yi Wu.
30 illus.
Table of Contents
Cover
Contents
pp. v
Never the Twain: Life Writingâs Geographical Contexts
pp. 1-14
Refusing the Cultural Turn: Amir Muhammadâs Politics of Surfaces
pp. 15-34
Life Writing and the Making of Companionable Objects: Reflections on Sunaryoâs Titik Nadir
pp. 35-54
âThese people are my people, these places are my placesâ: Cultural Hybridity and Identity in South African Artist David Kramerâs Oeuvre
pp. 55-82
Under New Management: Whiteness in Post-Apartheid South African Life Writing
pp. 83-96
Martin Amis, Mimetic Contracts, and Life Writing Pacts: A Story about 9/11
pp. 97-114
Hidden Heroes: Cultural Interaction and Nationalism in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Hawaiian Biographies
pp. 115-138
Ethics, Oral History, and Interpreters in the Iraq War
pp. 139-168
âDonât write thisâ: Researching Provincial Biographies in Indonesia
pp. 169-192
Biography in the Court Room? Far from a Final Judgment
pp. 193-214
Writing Lives in Exile: Autobiographies of the Indonesian Left Abroad
pp. 215-238
Local Boons: The Many Lives of Family Stories
pp. 239-258
The Jiwen of Shen Cheng for his Daughter Azhen
pp. 259-262
Contributors
pp. 263-265
ISBN | 9780824837730 |
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Related ISBN(s) | 9780824837303 |
MARC Record | Download |
OCLC | 861528066 |
Launched on MUSE | 2012-10-19 |
Language | English |
Open Access | No |