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

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List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

These two memoirs provide windows into the Sumatran past, in particular, and the early 20th-century history of south-east Asia, in general. In reconstructing their own passage into adulthood, the writers tell the story of their country's turbulent journey to independence.

Product details

• Authors: P. Pospos, Muhamad Radjab, Susan Rodgers
• Assisted by: Susan Rodgers (Editor), Rodgers Susan (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.04.1995
• EAN: 9780520085473
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08547-3
• No. of pages: 348
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Historiography, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Colonialism & imperialism, Historiography, Colonialism and imperialism, Indonesia, Autobiography: historical, political and military, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence