Telling Lives, Telling History Autobiography and Historical Imagination in Modern Indonesia

Name: Telling Lives, Telling History Autobiography and Historical Imagination in Modern Indonesia
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ISBN: 9780520085473

ISBN-10: 0520085477

ISBN-13: 9780520085473

Edition: 1996

Authors: Susan Rodgers

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These two memoirs, superbly rendered into English for the first time, provide unique windows into the Sumatran past, in particular, and the early twentieth-century history of Southeast Asia, in general. Originally published soon after the Indonesian Revolution (1945-1949) liberated the island chain from Dutch control, these unusually insightful narratives recall the authors' boyhoods in rural Toba Batak and Minangkabau villages. In reconstructing their own passage into adulthood, the writers inevitably tell the story of their country's turbulent journey from colonial subjugation through revolution to independence. Susan Rodgers's perceptive introduction illuminates the importance of…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/19/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 348
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Maps


Glossary



Two Sumatran Childhood Memoirs


Imagining Modern Indonesia via Autobiography


The Texts and Their Authors


Autobiography in Indonesian and Malay Historical Traditions


Images of Self and Society


Book Learning, Schools, Language, and Knowledge


Portrayals of Religion


Images of Time and Historical Narration


Sumatran Childhood Autobiography as History



The Translations


Aku dan Toba (Me and Toba)



Semasa Kecil di Kampung (Village Childhood)



References


Index