Relative Histories : : Mediating History in Asian American Family Memoirs / / Rocio G. Davis.
Relative Histories focuses on the Asian American memoir that specifically recounts the story of at least three generations of the same family. This form of auto/biography concentrates as much on other members of one's family as on oneself, generally collapses the boundaries conventionally estab...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Relatives and Histories
- 2. Family Memoirs in the Context of Auto/ biographical Writing: Mediating History, Promoting Collective Memory
- 3. Representing Asian Wars and Revolutions
- 4. Multiple Journeys and Palimpsestic Diasporas
- 5. The Chinese in America
- 6. The Asian American Family Portrait Documentary
- 7. We're Everywhere
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Author