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1 online resource |
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Palgrave studies in oral history |
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Palgrave studies in oral history.
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| Contents |
1. Oral History and Fragments in Southeast Asia; Loh Kah Seng, Ernest Koh and Alistair Thomson -- PART I: ORAL HISTORY AND OFFICIAL HISTORY -- 2. Family Memories as Alternative Narratives to the State's Construction of Singapore's National History; Kevin Blackburn -- 3. 'You have picked a wrong candidate:' Latent Fragments and Reasonable Narratives of the British Military Withdrawal from Singapore; Loh Kah Seng -- 4. Remembrance, Nation, and the Second World War in Singapore: The Chinese Diaspora and their Wars; Ernest Koh -- PART II: MEMORIES OF VIOLENCE -- 5. On the Fluidity and Stability of Personal Memory: Jibin Arula and the Jabidah Massacre in the Philippines; Rommel A. Curaming and Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied -- 6. Narratives of the 'Red Barrel' Incident: Collective and Individual Memories in Lamsin, Southern Thailand; Jularat Damrongviteetham -- 7. Memory, Trauma and Nation: History and Memory Contestation in Malaysia; Leong Kar Yen -- PART III: ORAL TRADITION AND HERITAGE -- 8. The Anthropologist as Heroine: Contemporary Interpretations of Memory and Heritage in an Indonesian Valley; Emilie Wellfelt -- 9. Oral History, Heritage Conservation and the Leprosy Settlement: The Sungai Buloh Community in Malaysia; Chou Wen Loong and Ho Sok Fong -- 10. Memory, Heritage and the Singapore River: 'It is like a dead snake'; Stephen Dobbs |
| Summary |
Elderly Southeast Asians experienced great changes in their lives ₆ of war and violence, of the imposition of the nation-state, of economic development -- and remember them in different ways. Their oral histories may bear the influence of state-sanctioned narratives, attempt to speak truth to power or reconcile individual and official memories. By taking an inter-disciplinary approach, Oral History in Southeast Asia: Memories and Fragments considers the relationship of these fragments of memory to dominant accounts; it unravels the complex ways through which people remember and make sense of their pasts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Publisher supplied information |
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Oral history.
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oral histories (literary works)
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Asian history -- South East Asia.
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Social & cultural history -- South East Asia.
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Oral history -- South East Asia.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
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History.
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Historiography
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Oral history
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| SUBJECT |
Southeast Asia -- Historiography
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| Subject |
Southeast Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Loh, Kah Seng.
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Dobbs, Stephen.
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Koh, Ernest.
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| ISBN |
9781137311672 |
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1137311673 |
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1299764673 |
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9781299764675 |
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