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ISBN10: 0520085477
ISBN13: 9780520085473
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Apr 19 1995
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.94 Depth: 8.95
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780520085473
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Apr 19 1995
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.94 Depth: 8.95
Language: English
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.
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