LEADER 03597nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910825045203321 005 20230422045032.0 010 $a1-281-29152-8 010 $a9786611291525 010 $a1-84714-240-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000398980 035 $a(EBL)437014 035 $a(OCoLC)229370725 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000182159 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11190171 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000182159 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10171617 035 $a(PQKB)11736824 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC437014 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL437014 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10224808 035 $a(OCoLC)893334560 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000398980 100 $a19990429d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe intimate empire$b[electronic resource] $ereading women's autobiography /$fGillian Whitlock 210 $aNew York $cCassell$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 225 1 $aLiterature, culture, and identity 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-304-70599-3 311 $a0-304-70600-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [207]-220) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aBy means of contextualized readings, this work argues that autobiographic writing allows an intimate access to processes of colonization and decolonization, incorporation and resistance, and the formation and reformation of identities which occurs in postcolonial space. The book explores the interconnections between race, gender, autobiography and colonialism and uses a method of reading which looks for connections between very different autobiographical writings to pursue constructions of blackness and whiteness, femininity and masculinity, and nationality. Unlike previous studies of autobiog 410 0$aLiterature, culture, and identity. 606 $aCommonwealth literature (English)$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAutobiography$xWomen authors 606 $aWomen and literature$zCommonwealth countries$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWomen and literature$zCommonwealth countries$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aEnglish prose literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish prose literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aImperialism in literature 606 $aColonies in literature 606 $aSelf in literature 615 0$aCommonwealth literature (English)$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAutobiography$xWomen authors. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish prose literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish prose literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aImperialism in literature. 615 0$aColonies in literature. 615 0$aSelf in literature. 676 $a820.9/9287/09171241 700 $aWhitlock$b Gillian$f1953-$01618325 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825045203321 996 $aThe intimate empire$93949968 997 $aUNINA