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Relative Histories - Mediating History in Asian American Family Memoirs (Hardcover)
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Relative Histories - Mediating History in Asian American Family Memoirs (Hardcover)
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Relative Histories focuses on the Asian American memoir that
specifically recounts the story of at least three generations of
the same family. This form of auto/biography concentrates as much
on other members of one's family as on oneself, generally collapses
the boundaries conventionally established between biography and
autobiography, and in many cases--as Rocio G. Davis proposes for
the auto/biographies of ethnic writers--crosses the frontier into
history, promoting collective memory. Davis centers on how Asian
American family memoirs expand the limits and function of life
writing by reclaiming history and promoting community cohesion. She
argues that identity is shaped by not only the stories we have been
told, but also the stories we tell, making these narratives
important examples of the ways we remember our family's past and
tell our community's story. In the context of auto/biographical
writing or filmmaking that explores specific ethnic experiences of
diaspora, assimilation, and integration, this work considers two
important aspects: These texts re-imagine the past by creating a
work that exists both in history and as a historical document,
making the creative process a form of re-enactment of the past
itself. Each chapter centers on a thematic concern germane to the
Asian American experience: the narrative of twentieth-century Asian
wars and revolutions, which has become the subtext of a significant
number of Asian American family memoirs (Pang-Mei Natasha Chang's
Bound Feet and Western Dress, May-lee and Winberg Chai's The Girl
from Purple Mountain, K. Connie Kang's Home Was The Land of Morning
Calm, Doung Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow); family
experiences of travel and displacement within Asia in the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which unveil a history of
multiple diasporas that are often elided after families immigrate
to the United States (Helie Lee's Still Life With Rice, Jael
Silliman's Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames, Mira Kamdar's Motiba's
Tattoos); and the development of Chinatowns as family spaces
(Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men, Lisa See's On Gold Mountain,
Bruce Edward Hall's Tea that Burns). The final chapter analyzes the
discursive possibilities of the filmed family memoir ("family
portrait documentary"), examining Lise Yasui's A Family Gathering,
Ruth Ozeki Lounsbury's Halving the Bones, and Ann Marie Fleming's
The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam. Davis concludes the work with a
metaliterary engagement with the history of her own Asian diasporic
family as she demonstrates the profound interconnection between
forms of life writing.
General
Imprint: |
University of Hawaii Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2010 |
First published: |
February 2011 |
Authors: |
Rocio G. Davis
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Dimensions: |
162 x 236 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
208 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8248-3458-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
General
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LSN: |
0-8248-3458-5 |
Barcode: |
9780824834586 |
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