Locating Life Stories: Beyond East-West Binaries in by Maureen Perkins

By Maureen Perkins

The 13 essays during this quantity come from Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Malaysia, South Africa, and Hawai‘i. With a shared concentrate on the categorical neighborhood stipulations that effect the ways that existence narratives are advised, the authors interact with quite a few educational disciplines, together with anthropology, background, media reports, and literature, to problem claims that lifestyles writing is an solely Western phenomenon. Addressing the typical wish to think of lived event, the authors enlist interdisciplinary views to interrogate the variety of cultural types to be had for representing and knowing lives.

Contributors: Maria Faini, Kenneth George, Philip Holden, David T. Hill, Craig Howes, Bryan Kuwada, Kirin Narayan, Maureen Perkins, Peter learn, Tony Simoes da Silva, Mathilda Slabbert, Gerry van Klinken, Pei-yi Wu.

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