ISBN:
9789004431980
Language:
English
Pages:
XVI, 270 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
,
25 cm
Series Statement:
Gendering the Trans-Pacific world volume 4
Series Statement:
Gendering the trans-pacific world
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Fujita-Rony, Dorothy B., 1964 - The memorykeepers
DDC:
305.48/899224620730922
Keywords:
Tobing, H. L
;
Rony, Minar T
;
Tobin family
;
Women, Toba-Batak Biography
;
Toba-Batak (Indonesian people) Biography
;
Women, Toba-Batak Social life and customs 20th century
;
Indonesian Americans Biography
;
Asian diaspora
;
Sumatra (Indonesia) History 20th century
;
Sumatra (Indonesia) Emigration and immigration 20th century
;
History
;
USA
;
Toba
;
Einwanderung
;
Ethnische Identität
Abstract:
"Dorothy Fujita-Rony's 'The Memorykeepers: Gendered Knowledges, Empires, and Indonesian American History' examines the importance of women's memorykeeping for two Toba Batak women whose twentieth-century histories span Indonesia and the United States, H.L.Tobing and Minar T. Rony. This book addresses the meanings of family stories and artifacts within a gendered and interimperial context, and demonstrates how these knowledges can produce alternate cartographies of memory and belonging within the diaspora. It thus explores how women's memorykeeping forges integrative possibility, not only physically across islands, oceans, and continents, but also temporally, across decades, empires, and generations. Thirty-five years in the making, 'The Memorykeepers' is the first book on Indonesian Americans written within the fields of US history, American Studies, and Asian American Studies"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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