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Hauser Thomas |
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Reflections : conversations, essays, and other writings / / Thomas Hauser |
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Fayetteville, [Arkansas] : , : The University of Arkansas Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1 online resource (365 p.) |
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American essays - 20th century |
Racism - United States |
United States Politics and government |
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Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library. |
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Reflections on the Beatles in America -- Confronting racism -- Personal profiles -- More on politics -- Curiosities -- Personal notes -- A God to hope for -- The end of the year. |
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<div>Thomas Hauser is the author of 46 books, including <i>Missing and Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times</i>. In 2004, the Boxing Writers Association of America honored Hauser with the Nat Fleischer Award for Career Excellence in Boxing Journalism.</div> |
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UNINA9910812832703321 |
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Whitlock Gillian |
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Postcolonial life narratives : testimonial transactions / / Gillian Whitlock |
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Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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[First edition.] |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures |
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Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism |
Postcolonialism in literature |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 |
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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 |
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narrative in the late eighteenth century to contemporary Anglophone life narrative from Africa, Australia, the |
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