Joining bits and pieces
A Chinese Indonesian mother–daughter collaborative witnessing as a resource for writing an autobiographical novel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12672017 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alberta Natasia Adji (0000-0003-3966-7809, Edith Cowan University, corresponding author), Wanwan Tjitrodjojo (Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19-35 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9373 • E-ISSN: 1469-8447 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649373.2023.2156115 |
| OpenAlex | W4320499325 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
In this article, I as researcher and my mother as collaborator present small stories about our own and my late grandmother’s lived experiences during the New Order and Reformasi eras in Indonesia. Both perform a collaborative witnessing, which is a form of “relational autoethnography” that enables researchers to focus on and evocatively tell the lives of others through conversation and shared storytelling as a source that informs my life writing practice. Collaborating with my mother, this article is a reflection on how I, as a young Chinese Indonesian woman writer, capture and negotiate my family’s hybrid identities as double minorities through writing an autobiographical novel on my late grandmother’s and my mother’s lived experiences as well as my own
Art · Autoethnography · Conversation · Daughter · Indonesian · Life writing · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Negotiation · Sociology · Storytelling · Asian Studies and History · Communication · Gender and Women's Rights · Gender Studies · Islamic Studies and Radicalism · Psychology
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Present Pasts
Dialogism
Thinking about silence
Narrative Inquiry
Introduction
Life Narratives and Youth Culture
The Politics of Multiculturalism
The relationship between intergenerational cultural conflict and social support among Asian American and Asian international female college students and their parents
The power of names in a Chinese Indonesian family’s negotiations of politics, culture, and identities
Locating an Intergenerational Self in Postcolonial Family Histories
Rethinking Marginality
Surviving the Wreck
Ethics and Institutions in Biographical Writing on Indonesian Subjects
Chinese Women Writers in Indonesia and their Views of Female Emancipation
Writing in the rain
Half and Half
Chinese Indonesians
Intergenerational or Multigenerational? A Question of Nuance
Literature and the Media Contemporary Literature from the Chinese 'Diaspora' in Indonesia
Assimilation, multiculturalism, hybridity
Mapping Chineseness on the landscape of Christian churches in Indonesia
Beyond the officially sacred
Entering the Silence
Collaborative Witnessing of Survival During the Holocaust
Deflecting Privilege
The Politics of Names among Chinese Indonesians in Java
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |