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Camp Life Is Paradise for Freddy
A Childhood in the Dutch East Indies, 1933–1946
By Fred Lanzing
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Translation by Marjolijn de Jager
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Introduction by William H. Frederick
In this lyrical but controversial memoir of his childhood in a Japanese internment camp for Dutch colonialists during World War II, Lanzing enlivens ongoing discussions of the politics of memory and the powerful—if contentious—contributions that subjective accounts make to historiography and the legacies of the past.
Not Out of Hate
A Novel of Burma
By Ma Ma Lay
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Edited by William H. Frederick
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Translation by Margaret Aung-Thwin
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Introduction by Anna Allott
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Afterword by Robert E. Vore
Ma Ma Lay’s 1955 novel of the marriage between a rural teenager to a powerful Anglophile twenty years her senior, set in prewar Burma, is an engaging drama, finely observed work of social realism, and stirring rejection of Western cultural dominance by Burma’s foremost female author and one of its preeminent voices for change.
