Locating Life Stories: Beyond East-West Binaries in (Auto)Biographical Studies

Published by University of Hawaii Press 2012

Locating Life Stories

Beyond East-West Binaries in (Auto)Biographical Studies

Edited by: Maureen Perkins

In the series Biography Monographs

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824837730

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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.

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Never The Twain: Life Writing’s Geographical Contexts Maureen Perkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Refusing the Cultural Turn: Amir Muhammad’s Politics of Surfaces Philip Holden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Life Writing and the Making of Companionable Objects: Reflections on Sunaryo’s Titik Nadir Kenneth M. George Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
“These people are my people, these places are my places”: Cultural Hybridity and Identity in South African Artist David Kramer’s Oeuvre Mathilda Slabbert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Under New Management: Whiteness in Post-Apartheid South African Life Writing Tony Simoes da Silva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Martin Amis, Mimetic Contracts, and Life Writing Pacts: A Story about 9/11 Craig Howes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Hidden Heroes: Cultural Interaction and Nationalism in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Hawaiian Biographies Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Ethics, Oral History, and Interpreters in the Iraq War Maria Faini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
“Don’t write this”: Researching Provincial Biographies in Indonesia Gerry van Klinken Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Biography in the Court Room? Far from a Final Judgment Peter Read Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Writing Lives in Exile: Autobiographies of the Indonesian Left Abroad David T. Hill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Local Boons: The Many Lives of Family Stories Kirin Narayan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
The Jiwen of Shen Cheng for his Daughter Azhen Pei-yi Wu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263

Language: English
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 312
Illustrations
- Other: 29 b&w images, 1 map

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Published: September 30, 2012
ISBN: 9780824837730