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Locating Life Stories: Beyond East-West Binaries in (Auto)biographical Studies (Biography Monographs)
Maureen Perkins
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Description for Locating Life Stories: Beyond East-West Binaries in (Auto)biographical Studies (Biography Monographs)
Hardcover. 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 Editor(s): Perkins, Maureen. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; GBCB; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.
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.
Contributors: Maria Faini, Kenneth George, Philip Holden, David ... Read more
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.
Contributors: Maria Faini, Kenneth George, Philip Holden, David ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Univ Hawaii Pr
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824837303
SKU
V9780824837303
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