Susan Rodgers Telling Lives, Telling History (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Further DetailsTitle: Telling Lives, Telling HistoryCondition: NewDescription: These two memoirs, superbly rendered into English for the first time, provide unique windows into the Sumatran past, in particular, and the early twentieth-century history of Southeast Asia, in general. Originally published soon after the Indonesian Revolution (1945-1949) liberated the island chain from Dutch control, these unusually insightful narratives recall the authors' boyhoods in rural Toba Batak and Minangkabau villages. In reconstructing their own passage into adulthood, the writers inevitably tell the story of their country's turbulent journey from colonial subjugation through revolution to independence. Susan Rodgers's perceptive introduction illuminates the importance of autobiography in developing historical consciousness and imagining a national future.Author: Susan RodgersContributor: Susan Rodgers (Edited by)Country/Region of Manufacture: USEAN: 9780520085473Format: PaperbackGenre: BiographyISBN: 9780520085473ISBN-10: 0520085477Item Weight: 590gItem Width: 23mmLanguage: EnglishPublisher: University of California PressRelease Date: 04/19/1995Subtitle: Autobiography and Historical Imagination in Modern IndonesiaTopic: HistoryRelease Year: 1995

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