Contestations of memory in Southeast Asia / edited by Roxana Waterson and Kwok Kian-Woon.

Other author Waterson, Roxana.
Other author Kwok, Kian Woon.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoSingapore : NUS Press,
Descriptionvi, 300 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Contents The work of memory and the unfinished past, deepening and widening the study of memory in Southeast Asia / Roxana Waterson and Kwok Kian-Woon -- Remembering kings, archives, resistence, and memory in colonial and post-colonial Burma / Maitrii Aung-Thwin -- Shifting visions of the past, ethnic minorities and the 'struggle for national independence' in Laos / Vatthana Pholsena -- Truth and memory, narrating Viet Nam / Sharon Seah Li-Lian -- Textual construction of a nation, the use of merger and separation / Dayang Istiaisyah bte Hussin -- Remembering, misremembering, and forgetting, the struggle over Serangan Oemoem 1 Maret 1949 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia / Heddy Shri Ahimsa Putra -- War and violence, history and memory, the Philippine experience of the Second World War / Ricardo T. José -- The past in the present, memories of the 1964 'racial riots' in Singapore / Adeline Low Hwee Cheng -- Memories at the margins, Chinese-educated intellectuals in Singapore / Kwok Kian-Woon and Kelvin Chia -- Living with the spectre of the past, traumatic experiences among wives of former political prisoners of the '1965 event' in Indonesia / Budiawan.
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LCCN 2012330133
ISBN9789971695064