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

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The thirteen essays in this volume come from Australia! China! India! Indonesia! Iraq! Malaysia! South Africa! and Hawaii. With a shared focus on the specific local conditions that influence the ways in which life narratives are told! the authors engage

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• Authors: Maureen (EDT) Perkins, Mayreen Perkins
• Assisted by: Maureen Perkins (Editor), Mayreen Perkins (Editor)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2012
• EAN: 9780824837303
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-3730-3
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Biography Monographs; Biography Monographs
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies