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UNINA9910825045203321 |
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Autore |
Whitlock Gillian <1953-> |
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Titolo |
The intimate empire : reading women's autobiography / / Gillian Whitlock |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : Cassell, 2000 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-29152-8 |
9786611291525 |
1-84714-240-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Collana |
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Literature, culture, and identity |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-220) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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