03597nam 2200769Ia 450 991082504520332120230422045032.01-281-29152-897866112915251-84714-240-0(CKB)1000000000398980(EBL)437014(OCoLC)229370725(SSID)ssj0000182159(PQKBManifestationID)11190171(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000182159(PQKBWorkID)10171617(PQKB)11736824(MiAaPQ)EBC437014(Au-PeEL)EBL437014(CaPaEBR)ebr10224808(OCoLC)893334560(EXLCZ)99100000000039898019990429d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe intimate empire[electronic resource] reading women's autobiography /Gillian WhitlockNew York Cassell20001 online resource (241 p.)Literature, culture, and identityDescription based upon print version of record.0-304-70599-3 0-304-70600-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-220) and index.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; IndexBy 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 autobiogLiterature, culture, and identity.Commonwealth literature (English)Women authorsHistory and criticismAutobiographyWomen authorsWomen and literatureCommonwealth countriesHistory20th centuryWomen and literatureCommonwealth countriesHistory19th centuryEnglish prose literature19th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish prose literature20th centuryHistory and criticismImperialism in literatureColonies in literatureSelf in literatureCommonwealth literature (English)Women authorsHistory and criticism.AutobiographyWomen authors.Women and literatureHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryEnglish prose literatureHistory and criticism.English prose literatureHistory and criticism.Imperialism in literature.Colonies in literature.Self in literature.820.9/9287/09171241Whitlock Gillian1953-1618325MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825045203321The intimate empire3949968UNINA