Locating Life Stories: Beyond East-West Binaries in (Auto)Biographical Studies
Maureen Perkins
Abstract
The thirteen essays in this book 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 book engages 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 book enlists interdisciplinary perspectives to interrogate the range of cultural forms available for rep ... More
The thirteen essays in this book 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 book engages 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 book enlists interdisciplinary perspectives to interrogate the range of cultural forms available for representing and understanding lives.
Keywords:
life narratives,
life writing,
lived experience,
Australia,
China,
India,
Indonesia,
Iraq,
Malaysia,
South Africa
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780824837303 |
| Published to Hawaii Scholarship Online: November 2016 |
DOI:10.21313/hawaii/9780824837303.001.0001 |
