The intimate empire :: reading women's autobiography /

By means of contextualized readings, this work argues that autobiographic writing allows an intimate access to processes of colonization and decolonization, incorporation and resistance, and the formation and reformation of identities which occurs in postcolonial space. The book explores the interco...

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1. Verfasser: Whitlock, Gillian, 1953-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York : Cassell, 2000.
Schriftenreihe:Literature, culture, and identity.
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Zusammenfassung:By means of contextualized readings, this work argues that autobiographic writing allows an intimate access to processes of colonization and decolonization, incorporation and resistance, and the formation and reformation of identities which occurs in postcolonial space. The book explores the interconnections between race, gender, autobiography and colonialism and uses a method of reading which looks for connections between very different autobiographical writings to pursue constructions of blackness and whiteness, femininity and masculinity, and nationality. Unlike previous studies of autobiog.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 232 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index.
ISBN:9781847142405
1847142400