Telling lives, telling history
Subtitle: autobiography and historical imagination in modern Indonesia
By: edited, translated, and with an introduction by Susan Rodgers.
Contributors: Rodgers, Susan, 1949-; Pospos, P.; Radjab, Muhamad.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
Subjects: Pospos, P.; Radjab, Muhamad.; Indonesia -- History -- 20th century.
Description: These two memoirs, superbly rendered into English for the first time, provide unique windows into the Sumatran past, in particular, and the early twentieth-century history of Southeast Asia, in general. Originally published soon after the Indonesian Revolution (1945-1949) liberated the island chain from Dutch control, these unusually insightful narratives recall the authors' boyhoods in rural Toba Batak and Minangkabau villages. In reconstructing their own passage into adulthood, the writers inevitably tell the story of their country's turbulent journey from colonial subjugation through revolution to independence. Susan Rodgers's perceptive introduction illuminates the importance of autobiography in developing historical consciousness and imagining a national future. Show more Show less.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-329) and index.
English translation of Aku dan Toba and Semasa kecil di kampung originally published in 1950.
Table of contents: title: Aku dan Toba (Me and Toba) / by P. Pospos; title: Semasa kecil di kampung (Villafe childhood) / by Muhamad Radjab.