Relative Histories
Mediating History in Asian American Family Memoirs
Relative Histories Mediating History in Asian American Family Memoirs
This work focuses the Asian American memoir that specifically recounts the story of at least three generations of the same family. This form of autobiography concentrates as much on other members of one's family as on oneself, generally collapses the boundaries conventionally established between biography and autobiography, and in many cases crosses the frontier into history, promoting collective memory.