Unhinging the national framework : perspectives on transnational life writing / editors, Babs Boter, Marleen Rensen & Giles Scott-Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boter, Babs, 1963-

Rensen, Marleen.

Scott-Smith, Giles, 1968-

Series:

Clues, interdisciplinary studies in culture, history and heritage ; 5.

Clues, interdisciplinary studies in culture, history and heritage ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiography--Authorship.

Autobiography.

Biography--Authorship.

Biography.

Transnationalism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2020]

Summary:

This book focuses on the 20th century lives of men and women whose life-work and life experiences transgressed and surpassed the national boundaries that existed or emerged in the 20th century. The chapters explore how these life-stories add innovative transnational perspectives to the entangled histories of the world wars, decolonization, the Cold War and post-colonialism.The subjects vary from artists, intellectuals, and politicians to ordinary citizens, each with their own unique set of experiences, interactions and interpretations. They trace the building of socio-cultural and professional networks, the casual encounters of everyday life, and the travel, translation, and preserving of life stories in different media. In these multiple ways the book makes a strong case for reclaiming lost personal narratives that have been passed over by more orthodox nation-state focused approaches.These explorations make use of social and historical categories such as class, gender, religion and race in a transnational context, arguing that the transnational characteristics of these categories overflow the nation-state frame. In this way they can be used to 'unhinge' the primarily national context of history-writing.By drawing on personal records and other primary sources, the chapters in this book release many layers of subjectivity otherwise lost, enabling a richer understanding of how individuals move through, interact with and are affected by the major events of their time.

Contents:

Intro

Introduction

Babs Boter and Marleen Rensen

Mieke Bouman (1907-1966) and the Jungschläger/Schmidt trials

Ernestine Hoegen

Colonialism, class, and collaboration: A wartime encounter on Java

Eveline Buchheim

"The Voortrekkers, on their way to Pretoria, 1952"

Doing race in life writing from South Africa to the Netherlands

Barbara Henkes

Sleepwalking to a poem

A theory of Adrienne Rich's translations from the Dutch

Diederik Oostdijk

W.E.B. Du Bois at Ons Suriname

Amsterdam transnational networks and Dutch anti-colonial activism in the late 1950s

Lonneke Geerlings

Following the letters

Emile de Laveleye's transnational correspondence network

Thomas D'haeninck

Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery in the Dutch Empire, 1902-1995

Marijke Huisman

The production and contestation of biography: New approaches from South Africa

Ciraj Rassool

Ordinary lives: teaching history with life narratives in transnational perspective

Nancy Mykoff

Starring Morgenland!

The life and work of Jan Johannes Theodorus Boon (1911-1974)

Edy Seriese

"She is English, isnt's she?"

Transnationality as part of Cissy van Marxveldt's self-presentation

Monica Soeting

"A caveman in a canal house"

The rejection of transnationalist biography in Hafid Bouazza's A Bear in Fur Coat

Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar

Afterword: reflections from a diplomatic historian

Giles Scott-Smith

Notes:

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Boter, B. Unhinging the National Framework.

ISBN:

9789088909764

9088909768

OCLC:

1228034471

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