Telling Lives, Telling Histories (Paper)

1. Auflage 1995
ISBN: 978-0-520-08547-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 572 g

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 autobiography in developing historical consciousness and imagining a national future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rodgers, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

MAPS

GLOSSARY

PART ONE • TWO SUMATRAN CHILDHOOD MEMOIRS
Imagining Modern Indonesia via Autobiography

Introduction

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

A Note on Translation

Notes

PART TWO • THE TRANSLATIONS
Aku dan Toba [Me and Toba], by P. Pospos

Notes
Semasa Kecil di Kampung [ Village Childhood], by Muhamad Radjab

Notes

REFERENCES

INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Rodgers is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Holy Cross College and coeditor, most recently, of Indonesian Religions in Transition (1987).