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Writing Lives in Exile: Autobiographies of the Indonesian Left Abroad
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Writing Lives in Exile: Autobiographies of the Indonesian Left Abroad

D.T. Hill
Locating Life Stories: Beyond East-West Binaries in (Auto)Biographical Studies, pp.215-237
University of Hawai'i Press
2012
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Abstract

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.

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