Locating Life Stories
Beyond East-West Binaries in (Auto)Biographical Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23524546 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Maureen Perkins |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 265 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Locating life stories (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Hawai'i Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.21313/hawaii/9780824837303.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4240870004 |
| Open Library | OL25331217M |
| ISBN | 9780824837303 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The thirteen essays in this book come from Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Malaysia, South Africa, and Hawai‘i. With a shared focus on the specific local conditions that influence the ways in which life narratives are told, the book engages with a variety of academic disciplines, including anthropology, history, media studies, and literature, to challenge claims that life writing is an exclusively Western phenomenon. Addressing the common desire to reflect on lived experience, the book enlists interdisciplinary perspectives to interrogate the range of cultural forms available for rep ... More
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · China · Epistemology · Life writing · Literature · Lived experience · Media studies · Narrative · Phenomenon · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · History · Psychology · Autobiography · biography · Biography as a literary form · Cross-cultural studies · National characteristics in literature
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2020 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |