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

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The Memorykeepers: Gendered Knowledges, Empires, and Indonesian American History is written by Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004436235 (ISBN 10) and 9789004436237 (ISBN 13).

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. See inside the book.