Viet Nam: Borderless Histories (New Perspectives in SE Asian Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299217744 ISBN 13: 9780299217747

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006

Synopsis

Women, Autobiography, Theory is the first comprehensive guide to the burgeoning field of women s autobiography, drawing into one volume the most significant theoretical discussions on women s life writing of the last two decades.
The authoritative introduction by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson surveys writing about women s lives from the women s movement of the late 1960s to the present. It also relates theoretical positions in women s autobiography studies to postmodern, poststructuralist, postcolonial, and feminist analyses.
The essays from thirty-nine prominent critics and writers include many considered classics in this field. They explore narratives across the centuries and from around the globe, including testimonios, diaries, memoirs, letters, trauma accounts, prison narratives, coming-out stories, coming-of-age stories, and spiritual autobiographies. A list of more than two hundred women s autobiographies and a comprehensive bibliography of critical scholarship in women s autobiography provide invaluable information for scholars, teachers, and readers.

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About this title

About the Author:

Nhung Tuyet Tran is assistant professor of history at the University of Toronto.
Anthony Reid is founding director of the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. 

Review:

"A significant contribution to the efforts to move beyond a national history of Vietnam. Many intriguing stories of the marginal and ambiguous subjects in the place we call Vietnam today." Thongchai Winichakul, University of Wisconsin Madison

"Vitally important not only for Vietnamese studies, but also for broader efforts in Southeast Asian studies to recover the pluralities and fluidities of the past." Mark Philip Bradley, Northwestern University

“Shows that crossing both physical and ideological borders is necessary to get at the truth of this fascinating country. . . . Highly recommended.”—"Choice"

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0299217744
• ISBN 13: 9780299217747
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Tran Nhung Tuyet, Reid Anthony