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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797052903321

Autore

Whitlock Gillian

Titolo

Postcolonial life narratives : testimonial transactions / / Gillian Whitlock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-105423-2

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures

Classificazione

17.76

17.86

Disciplina

820.93509171241

Soggetti

Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism

Postcolonialism 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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Series; OXFORD STUDIES IN POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURESGENERAL EDITOR: ELLEKE BOEHMERPOSTCOLONIAL LIFE Narratives; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part 1 Colonial Testimonial, 1789-1852; 1. Olaudah Equiano and Watkin Tench, London, 1789; 2. Bennelong's Letter, Sydney Cove, 29 August 1796; 3. Saartjie Baartman, St James Square, London, 27 November 1810; 4. The History of Mary Prince, Claremont Square, London, 1831; 5. Roughing It in the Bush, Upper Canada, 1832-52; 6. The Life, History, and Travels, of Kah-ge-ga-gah-Bowh, 1847; 7. Proximate Reading

Part 2 The Passages of Testimony: Contemporary Studies8. Afterlives: In the Wake of the TRC; 9. Remediation: Rape Warfare and Humanitarian Storytelling; 10. Thresholds of Testimony: Indigeneity, Nation, and Narration; 11. The Ends of Testimony; Salvage; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English.Postcolonial Life Narrative draws together two dynamic fields of contemporary literature and criticism, postcolonialism and life narrative, to create a new assemblage: postcolonial life narrative. Focusing in particular on testimonial narrative, from slave



narrative in the late eighteenth century to contemporary Anglophone life narrative from Africa, Australia, the