Pacifying Asia, Orienting the Pacific

What Work Can a Life-Writing Region Do

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ID12648392
AuthorsCraig Howes (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume14
Issue4
Pages441-453
Publication date2017-10-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLife Writing (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1448-4528 • E-ISSN: 1751-2964
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14484528.2017.1364178
OpenAlexW2761126396
LanguageEN
References cited16

In 2008, Philippe Lejuene asked the non-rhetorical question ‘Is the I International?’ This paper explores what effect thinking about regions can have on our understanding of what links life-writing practices, and what may necessarily keep them apart. As the third designated area for the International Auto/Biography Association, preceded by IABA Europe and IABA Americas, IABA Asia/Pacific faces some especially difficult challenges in engaging productively with the largest, most geographically, culturally, linguistically, and historically diverse region so inscribed. After outlining these challenges, and offering a history of various attempts at theorising or representing the Asia/Pacific region as a site for life writing, I will offer some suggestions about focus, possible directions, and responsibilities for an initiative that will stimulate discussion and productive collaboration

Asia pacific · Biography · Ethnology · Inscribed figure · Life writing · Linguistics · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Work (physics · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Biographical and Historical Analysis · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · History

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