Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Biography Monographs ii
3. Contents v
4. Never The Twain: Life Writing’s Geographical Contexts 1
5. Refusing the Cultural Turn: Amir Muhammad’s Politics of Surfaces 15
6. Life Writing and the Making of Companionable Objects: Reflections on Sunaryo’s Titik Nadir 35
7. “These people are my people, these places are my places”: Cultural Hybridity and Identity in South African Artist David Kramer’s Oeuvre 55
8. Under New Management: Whiteness in Post-Apartheid South African Life Writing 83
9. Martin Amis, Mimetic Contracts, and Life Writing Pacts: A Story about 9/11 97
10. Hidden Heroes: Cultural Interaction and Nationalism in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Hawaiian Biographies 115
11. Ethics, Oral History, and Interpreters in the Iraq War 139
12. “Don’t write this”: Researching Provincial Biographies in Indonesia 169
13. Biography in the Court Room? Far from a Final Judgment 193
14. Writing Lives in Exile: Autobiographies of the Indonesian Left Abroad 215
15. Local Boons: The Many Lives of Family Stories 239
16. The Jiwen of Shen Cheng for his Daughter Azhen 259
17. Contributors 263