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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784603803321

Autore

Whitlock Gillian <1953->

Titolo

The intimate empire [[electronic resource] ] : reading women's autobiography / / Gillian Whitlock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Cassell, 2000

ISBN

1-281-29152-8

9786611291525

1-84714-240-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Literature, culture, and identity

Disciplina

820.9/9287/09171241

Soggetti

Commonwealth literature (English) - Women authors - History and criticism

Autobiography - Women authors

Women and literature - Commonwealth countries - History - 20th century

Women and literature - Commonwealth countries - History - 19th century

English prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism

English prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Imperialism in literature

Colonies in literature

Self in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-220) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: In the pink: Empire and autobiography; 1 Autobiography and slavery: Believing the History of Mary Prince; 2 Settler subjects; 3 Travelling in memory of slavery; 4 Kenya: The land that never was; 5 Autobiography and resistance; 6 In memory of the colonial child; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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