Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia Tapa blanda - 2012

Singapore.: NUS Press.. 2012.. vi + 300pp, index, paperback. Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia applies a new theoretical literature on social memory to remembered events in Burma, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia. Highlighting connections between theorizing based on European examples and unresolved memory issues in East and Southeast Asia, the authors show how comparative study of the interpenetration of politics and lived bodily experience, of communal and personal memories, and of dominant and suppressed narratives, can yield insights into the human potential to become either perpetrators, victims or bystanders. The memories found within different groups in any society are open to negotiation, suppression, contestation, or revision in the ever-evolving politics of the present. The searching and close-grained analyses of contemporary issues found in the volume vividly illustrate the essentially plural and multivocal nature of social memories, and demonstrate… Leer más

NUS Press, 2012-08-31. Paperback. Good.

Singapore: NUS Press, 2012. Paperback. New. A collection of essays on the myriad possible interpretations of the past, depending on both the nature of the interpreter's relation to the past event and her/his ability and willingness to influence others in incorporating that interpretation in pursuit of a present day agenda. The contributors examine events and their aftermath in Burma, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia. The book is divided into three parts - I - Southeast Asia within the Filed of Memory Studies, II - Nationalisms and the Construction of Destinies and III - Traumatic Memories: Interpretations of Collective and Personal Experience. 300 pages with an index. Weight: 0.6kg. Post free within Malaysia