Oral History in Southeast Asia Memories and Fragments [Paperback]

Using the presence of the past as a point of departure, this books explores three critical themes in Southeast Asian oral history: the relationship between oral history and official histories produced by nation-states; the nature of memories of violence; and intersections between oral history, oral tradition, and heritage discourses.1. Oral History and Fragments in Southeast Asia; Loh Kah Seng, Ernest Koh and Alistair Thomson PART I: ORAL HISTORY AND OFFICIAL HISTORY  2. Family Memories as Alternative Narratives to the State's Construction of Singapore's National History; Kevin Blackburn 3. 'You have picked a wrong candidate:' Latent Fragments and Reasonable Narratives of the British Military Withdrawal from Singapore; Loh Kah Seng 4. Remembrance, Nation, and the Second World War in Singapore: The Chinese Diaspora and their Wars; Ernest Koh PART II: MEMORIES OF VIOLENCE 5. On the Fluidity and Stability of Personal Memory: Jibin Arula and the Jabidah Massacre in the Philippines; Rommel A. Curaming and Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied 6. Narratives of the 'Red Barrel' Incident: Collective and Individual Memories in Lamsin, Southern Thailand; Jularat Damrongviteetham 7. Memory, Trauma and Nation: History and Memory Contestation in Malaysia; Leong Kar Yen PART III: ORAL TRADITION AND HERITAGE 8. The Anthropologist as Heroine: Contemporary Interpretations of Memory and Heritage in an Indonesian Valley; Emilie Wellfelt 9. Oral History, Heritage Conservation and the Leprosy Settlement: The Sungai Buloh Community in Malaysia; Chou Wen Loong and Ho Sok Fong 10. Memory, Heritage and the Singapore River: 'It is like a dead snake'; Stephen Dobbs

The volume demonstrates the rich variety of oral history work taking place across Southeast Asia by historians, social scientists, local academics, activists and foreign researchers. & As a collection, these contributions highlight the diversity of oral history work being undertaken in the region and provide much-needed inlsª