Contestations of memory in Southeast Asia
By: edited by Roxana Waterson and Kwok Kian-Woon
Publisher: NUS Press; National University of Singapore Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9789971695064
Subjects: Collective memory; Nationalism and collective memory; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The work of memory and the unfinished past, deepening and widening the study of memory in Southeast Asia / Roxana Waterson and Kwok Kian-Woon; title: Remembering kings, archives, resistence, and memory in colonial and post-colonial Burma / Maitrii Aung-Thwin; title: Shifting visions of the past, ethnic minorities and the 'struggle for national independence' in Laos / Vatthana Pholsena; title: Truth and memory, narrating Viet Nam / Sharon Seah Li-Lian; title: Textual construction of a nation, the use of merger and separation / Dayang Istiaisyah bte Hussin; title: Remembering, misremembering, and forgetting, the struggle over Serangan Oemoem 1 Maret 1949 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia / Heddy Shri Ahimsa Putra; title: War and violence, history and memory, the Philippine experience of the Second World War / Ricardo T. José; title: The past in the present, memories of the 1964 'racial riots' in Singapore / Adeline Low Hwee Cheng; title: Memories at the margins, Chinese-educated intellectuals in Singapore / Kwok Kian-Woon and Kelvin Chia; title: Living with the spectre of the past, traumatic experiences among wives of former political prisoners of the '1965 event' in Indonesia / Budiawan.