Locating Life Stories : : Beyond East-West Binaries in (Auto)Biographical Studies / / ed. by Maureen Perkins.
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,...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Biography Monographs
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 29 b&w images, 1 map |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Biography Monographs
- Contents
- Never The Twain: Life Writing's Geographical Contexts
- Refusing the Cultural Turn: Amir Muhammad's Politics of Surfaces
- Life Writing and the Making of Companionable Objects: Reflections on Sunaryo's Titik Nadir
- "These people are my people, these places are my places": Cultural Hybridity and Identity in South African Artist David Kramer's Oeuvre
- Under New Management: Whiteness in Post-Apartheid South African Life Writing
- Martin Amis, Mimetic Contracts, and Life Writing Pacts: A Story about 9/11
- Hidden Heroes: Cultural Interaction and Nationalism in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Hawaiian Biographies
- Ethics, Oral History, and Interpreters in the Iraq War
- "Don't write this": Researching Provincial Biographies in Indonesia
- Biography in the Court Room? Far from a Final Judgment
- Writing Lives in Exile: Autobiographies of the Indonesian Left Abroad
- Local Boons: The Many Lives of Family Stories
- The Jiwen of Shen Cheng for his Daughter Azhen
- Contributors