The Memorykeepers: Gendered Knowledges, Empires, and Indonesian American History

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43198-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 607 g

Reihe: Gendering the Trans-Pacific World

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.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

B Fujita-Rony, Dorothy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Note on Orthography and Names

Introduction: Daughter of a Daughter: the Labor of Memorykeeping

1 Questions

2 The ‘Indonesian American’ Context

3 ‘Return’ and ‘Belonging’

Part 1: Empire and Gender

1 Empires:Interimperialism, Migration, and the United States

1 Introduction

2 When Empires Came to You: the Toba Batak

3 Multilingualism and Interimperial Temporality

4 The United States Cold War

5 Conclusion

2 Gendered Knowledges:Patriarchies and the Politics of Belonging

1 Introduction

2 The Toba Batak Culture as Political Location

3 Colonial Domesticity

4 Converging Gender Hierarchies

5 Negotiation and Challenge

6 Conclusion

Part 2: Curating Time

3 Stories and Silences: Telling the Past

1 Introduction

2 Searching for Archives

3 What Is Said

4 What Is Not Said

5 Two Pictures

6 Conclusion

4 Artifacts and Memories: Representing Meaning

1 Introduction

2 Knowledge as Legacy

3 Memorykeeping as Response to Precarity

4 The Labor of Artifacts

5 Conclusion

Part 3: Memorykeeping

Prologue to Part 3: A Journey and a Path

5 Across Empires: The Narrative of H.L. Tobing

1 Raja Pontas

2 The Old Times

3 Family

4 The Adat

5 Christianity

6 Tarutung

7 Living in the Village

8 Dutch Rule

9 Elementary School

10 Salatiga

11 Early Marriage

12 Semarang

13 Magetan

14 Pearaja

15 Bengkalis

16 Japanese Occupation and World War II

17 Kisaran

18 Medan

19 Progress

20 Opportunities

21 United States

22 Homecoming

6 For Those Who Follow: The Autobiography of Minar T. Rony

1 Beginnings

2 Bengkalis

3 Siantar

4 Return to Bengkalis

5 Bukit Batu

6 Pearaja

7 Jakarta

8 Return to Siantar

9 Medan

10 Teacher and Guide

11 The United States

Conclusion: The Urgency of Time

Timeline

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at University of California, Irvine. She received her Ph.D. (1995) from Yale University in the Department of American Studies.