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UNINA9910778382203321 |
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Titolo |
De/colonizing the subject : the politics of gender in women's autobiography / / Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, editors |
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Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 1992 |
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©1992 |
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ISBN |
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0-8166-8403-0 |
0-8166-1992-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxxi, 484 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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SmithSidonie |
WatsonJulia <1945-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women's studies - Biographical methods |
Autobiography - Women authors |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: De/Colonization and the Politics of Discourse in Women's Autobiographical Practices; Part 1 Autobiographical Identities and Cultural Interventions; Part 2 Theorizing the Politics of Form; Part 3 Negotiating Class and Race; Part 4 The Counterhegemonic ""I""; Part 5 The Body and the Colonizer; Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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De/Colonizing the Subject surveys women's autobiographical practices as they have arisen within and confronted the contexts of colonization and oppression. Challenging a universalism that reduces whole cultures to contained stereotypes and persons to cult |
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