Telling lives, telling history : autobiography and historical imagination in modern Indonesia / edited, translated, and with an introduction by Susan Rodgers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rodgers, Susan, 1949-

Language:

English

Indonesian

Subjects (All):

Pospos, P.

Radjab, Muhamad.

Indonesia--History--20th century.

Indonesia.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 333 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1995.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Aku dan Toba / by P. Pospos; and, Semasa kecil di kampung / by Muhamad Radjab.

Notes:

English translation of Aku dan Toba and Semasa kecil di kampung.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Pospos, P. Aku dan Toba. English. 1995.

Radjab, Muhamad. Semasa kecil di kampung. English. 1995.

ISBN:

0520085469

0520085477

OCLC:

30893921