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| Genre/Form: | Cross-cultural studies |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Maureen Perkins; University of Hawaii at Manoa. Biographical Research Center. |
| ISBN: | 9780824837303 0824837304 |
| OCLC Number: | 794306401 |
| Description: | 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Never the twain : life writing's geographical context / Maureen Perkins -- Refusing the cultural turn : Amir Muhammad's politics of surfaces / Philip Holden -- Life writing and the making of companionable objects : reflections on Sunaryo's Titik Nadir / Kenneth M. George -- "These people are my people, these places are my places" : cultural hybridity and identity in South African artist David Kramer's oeuvre / Mathilda Slabbert -- Under new management : whiteness in post-apartheid South African life writing / Tony Simoes da Silva -- Martin Amis, mimetic contracts, and life writing pacts : a story about 9/11 / Craig Howes -- Hidden heroes : cultural interaction and nationalism in nineteenth and early twentieth century Hawaiian biographies / Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada -- Ethics, oral history, and interpreters in the Iraq War / Maria Faini -- "Don't write this" : researching provincial biographies in Indonesia / Gerry van Klinken -- Biography in the court room? Far from a final judgment / Peter Read -- Writing lives in exile : autobiographies of the Indonesian left abroad / David T. Hill -- Local boons : the many lives of family stories / Kirin Narayan -- The Jiwen of Shen Cheng for his daughter Azhen / Pei-yi Wu. |
| Series Title: | Biography monograph. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Maureen Perkins. |
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