Contestations of memory in Southeast Asia : edited by Roxana Waterson and Kwok Kian-Woon.

Author(s): Waterson, Roxana | Kwok, Kian Woon

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Main Title
Contestations of memory in Southeast Asia
Author(s)
Kwok, Kian Woon
Waterson, Roxana
Publisher
Singapore : NUS Press, 2012.
Collation
300 p. : ill.
23 cm.
ISBN
9789971695064
Dewey Class
959
Contents
Introduction / Roxana Waterson and Kwok Kian-Woon --
Part I: Southeast Asia within the Field of Memory Studies. Chapter 1 The Work of Memory and the Unfinished Past: Deepening and Widening the Study of Memory in Southeast Asia / Roxana Waterson and Kwok Kian-Woon --
Part II: Nationalisms and the Construction of Destinies. Chapter 2 Remembering Kings: Archives, Resistance and Memory in Colonial and Post-colonial Burma / Maitrii Aung-Thwin -- Chapter 3 Shifting Visions of the Past: Ethnic Minorities and the ‘Struggle for National Independence’ in Laos / Vatthana Pholsena -- Chapter 4 Truth and Memory: Narrating Viet Nam / Sharon Seah Li-Lian -- Chapter 5 Textual Construction of a Nation: The Use of Merger and Separation / Dayang Istiaisyah bte Hussin -- Chapter 6 Remembering, Misremembering and Forgetting: The Struggle over Serangan Oemoem 1 Maret 1949 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia / Heddy Shri Ahimsa Putra --
Part III: Traumatic Memories: Interpenetrations of Collective and Personal Experience. Chapter 7 War and Violence, History and Memory: The Philippine Experience of the Second World War / Ricardo T. José -- Chapter 8 The Past in the Present: Memories of the 1964 ‘Racial Riots’ in Singapore / Adeline Low Hwee Cheng -- Chapter 9 Memories at the Margins: Chinese-Educated Intellectuals in Singapore / Kwok Kian-Woon and Kelvin Chia -- Chapter 10 Living with the Spectre of the Past: Traumatic Experiences among Wives of Former Political Prisoners of the ‘1965 Event’ in Indonesia / Budiawan.
Language
English
Subject
Collective memory -- Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia -- History
BRN
7364

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