Relative Histories: Mediating History in Asian American Family Memoirs 9780824860868

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Relatives and Histories
2. Family Memoirs in the Context of Auto/ biographical Writing: Mediating History, Promoting Collective Memory
3. Representing Asian Wars and Revolutions
4. Multiple Journeys and Palimpsestic Diasporas
5. The Chinese in America
6. The Asian American Family Portrait Documentary
7. We’re Everywhere
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Author

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