Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia

Contents

CONTENTS Introduction 1 Roxana Waterson and Kwok Kian-Woon Part I: Southeast Asia within the Field of Memory Studies Chapter 1 The Work of Memory and the Unfinished Past: Deepening and Widening the Study of Memory in Southeast Asia 17 Roxana Waterson and Kwok Kian-Woon Part II: Nationalisms and the Construction of Destinies Chapter 2 Remembering Kings: Archives, Resistance and Memory in Colonial and Post-colonial Burma 53 Maitrii Aung-Thwin Chapter 3 Shifting Visions of the Past: Ethnic Minorities and the ‘Struggle for National Independence’ in Laos 83 Vatthana Pholsena Chapter 4 Truth and Memory: Narrating Viet Nam 106 Sharon Seah Li-Lian Chapter 5 Textual Construction of a Nation: The Use of Merger and Separation 125 Dayang Istiaisyah bte Hussin Chapter 6 Remembering, Misremembering and Forgetting: The Struggle over Serangan Oemoem 1 Maret 1949 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia 156 Heddy Shri Ahimsa Putra v vi Contents Part III: Traumatic Memories: Interpenetrations of Collective and Personal Experience Chapter 7 War and Violence, History and Memory: The Philippine Experience of the Second World War 185 Ricardo T. José Chapter 8 The Past in the Present: Memories of the 1964 ‘Racial Riots’ in Singapore 201 Adeline Low Hwee Cheng Chapter 9 Memories at the Margins: Chinese-Educated Intellectuals in Singapore 230 Kwok Kian-Woon and Kelvin Chia Chapter 10 Living with the Spectre of the Past: Traumatic Experiences among Wives of Former Political Prisoners of the ‘1965 Event’ in Indonesia 270 Budiawan Contributors 292 Index 296 ...