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

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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 discipl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: University of Hawaii at Manoa. Biographical Research Center
Otros Autores: Perkins, Maureen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Honolulu] : Published for the Biographical Research Center by the University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2012]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
National characteristics in literature.
Biography as a literary form.
Biography.
Autobiography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Cultural Heritage.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Royalty.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Rich & Famous.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Reference.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Presidents & Heads of State.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Caracteristiques nationales dans la litterature.
Biographie (Genre litteraire) > Études transculturelles.
Biographies > Études transculturelles.
Autobiographie > Études transculturelles.
Biography as a literary form > Cross-cultural studies.
Biography > Cross-cultural studies.
Autobiography > Cross-cultural studies.
Cross-cultural studies
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Never the twain : life writing's geographical context / Maureen Perkins
  • Refusing the cultural turn : Amir Muhammad's politics of surfaces / Philip Holden
  • Life writing and the making of companionable objects : reflections on Sunaryo's Titik Nadir / Kenneth M. George
  • "These people are my people, these places are my places" : cultural hybridity and identity in South African artist David Kramer's oeuvre / Mathilda Slabbert
  • Under new management : whiteness in post-apartheid South African life writing / Tony Simoes da Silva
  • Martin Amis, mimetic contracts, and life writing pacts : a story about 9/11 / Craig Howes
  • Hidden heroes : cultural interaction and nationalism in nineteenth and early twentieth century Hawaiian biographies / Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada
  • Ethics, oral history, and interpreters in the Iraq War / Maria Faini
  • "Don't write this" : researching provincial biographies in Indonesia / Gerry van Klinken
  • Biography in the court room? Far from a final judgment / Peter Read
  • Writing lives in exile : autobiographies of the Indonesian left abroad / David T. Hill
  • Local boons : the many lives of family stories / Kirin Narayan
  • The Jiwen of Shen Cheng for his daughter Azhen / Pei-yi Wu.

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