Unhinging the National Framework
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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…mehr

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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, religionand 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.ContentsIntroductionBabs Boter and Marleen RensenArchival tracesMieke Bouman (1907-1966) and the Jungschläger/Schmidt trialsErnestine HoegenColonialism, class, and collaboration: A wartime encounter on JavaEveline Buchheim"The Voortrekkers, on their way to Pretoria, 1952": Doing Race in Life Writing from South Africa to the NetherlandsBarbara HenkesNetworkingSleepwalking to a poem: A theory of Adrienne Rich's translations from the DutchDiederik OostdijkW.E.B. Du Bois at Ons Suriname: Amsterdam transnational networks and Dutch anti-colonial activism in the late 1950sLonneke GeerlingsFollowing the letters: Emile de Laveleye's transnational correspondence networkThomas D'haeninckCirculationBooker T. Washington's Up From Slavery in the Dutch Empire, 1902-1995Marijke HuismanThe production and contestation of biography: New approaches from South AfricaCiraj RassoolOrdinary lives: teaching history with life narratives in transnational perspectiveNancy MykoffStarring Morgenland! The life and work of Jan Johannes Theodorus Boon (1911-1974)Edy SeriesePositionings"She is English, isn't she?": transnationality as part of Cissy van Marxveldt's self-presentationMonica Soeting"A caveman in a canal house": The rejection of transnationalist biography in Hafid Bouazza's A Bear in Fur CoatSjoerd-Jeroen MoenandarAfterword: Reflections from a diplomatic historianGiles Scott-Smith
Autorenporträt
Dr. Babs Boter is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Humanities, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research and teaching focus on life writing, travel writing and Diaspora Studies. She is initiator and convenor of the international expert group Unhinging the National Framework: Platform for the Study of Life Writing and Transnationalism.

Dr. Marleen Rensen is a Senior Lecturer in Modern European Literature at the European Studies Department of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She specializes in life writing and modern literature and has a particular interest in the lives of French and German artists in the twentieth and twenty-first century.