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Subject(s)

• Transnationalism [Browse]
• Autobiography in literature [Browse]

Related name

• Rensen, M. [Browse]
• Scott-Smith, G. [Browse]

Series

• Clues [More in this series]
• Clues ; v.5 [More in this series]

Summary note

This book focuses on the 20th century lives of men and women whose life-work and life experiences transgressed and surpassed the national boundaries that existed or emerged in the 20th century. The chapters explore how these life-stories add innovative transnational perspectives to the entangled histories of the world wars, decolonization, the Cold War and post-colonialism. The subjects vary from artists, intellectuals, and politicians to ordinary citizens, each with their own unique set of experiences, interactions and interpretations. They trace the building of socio-cultural and professional networks, the casual encounters of everyday life, and the travel, translation, and preserving of life stories in different media. In these multiple ways the book makes a strong case for reclaiming lost personal narratives that have been passed over by more orthodox nation-state focused approaches. These explorations make use of social and historical categories such as class, gender, religion and race in a transnational context, arguing that the transnational characteristics of these categories overflow the nation-state frame. In this way they can be used to 'unhinge' the primarily national context of history-writing. By drawing on personal records and other primary sources, the chapters in this book release many layers of subjectivity otherwise lost, enabling a richer understanding of how individuals move through, interact with and are affected by the major events of their time.

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Contents

• Intro
• Introduction
• Babs Boter and Marleen Rensen
• Mieke Bouman (1907‑1966) and the Jungschläger/Schmidt trials
• Ernestine Hoegen
• Colonialism, class, and collaboration: A wartime encounter on Java
• Eveline Buchheim
• "The Voortrekkers, on their way to Pretoria, 1952"
• Doing race in life writing from South Africa to the Netherlands
• Barbara Henkes
• Sleepwalking to a poem
• A theory of Adrienne Rich's translations from the Dutch
• Diederik Oostdijk
• W.E.B. Du Bois at Ons Suriname
• Amsterdam transnational networks and Dutch anti-colonial activism in the late 1950s
• Lonneke Geerlings
• Following the letters
• Emile de Laveleye's transnational correspondence network
• Thomas D'haeninck
• Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery in the Dutch Empire, 1902‑1995
• Marijke Huisman
• The production and contestation of biography: New approaches from South Africa
• Ciraj Rassool
• Ordinary lives: teaching history with life narratives in transnational perspective
• Nancy Mykoff
• Starring Morgenland!
• The life and work of Jan Johannes Theodorus Boon (1911‑1974)
• Edy Seriese
• "She is English, isnt's she?"
• Transnationality as part of Cissy van Marxveldt's self-presentation
• Monica Soeting
• "A caveman in a canal house"
• The rejection of transnationalist biography in Hafid Bouazza's A Bear in Fur Coat
• Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar
• Afterword: reflections from a diplomatic historian
• Giles Scott-Smith
• Blank Page.

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ISBN

90-8890-976-8

OCLC

1232279678

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