The Memorykeepers: Gendered Knowledges, Empires, and Indonesian American History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789004465060)

Dorothy Fujita-Rony's The Memorykeepers: Gendered Knowledges, Empires, and Indonesian American History examines the importance of women's memorykeeping for two Toba Batak women whose twentieth-century histories span Indonesia and the United States, H.L.Tobing and Minar T. Rony. This book addresses the meanings of family stories and artifacts within a gendered and interimperial context, and demonstrates how these knowledges can produce alternate cartographies of memory and belonging within the diaspora. It thus explores how women's memorykeeping forges integrative possibility, not only physically across islands, oceans, and continents, but also temporally, across decades, empires, and generations. Thirty-five years in the making, The Memorykeepers is the first book on Indonesian Americans written within the fields of US history, American Studies, and Asian American Studies.

Author: Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony
ISBN-10: 9004465065
ISBN-13: 9789004465060
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 10/05/2022
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.13h x 5.98w x 0.71d