The intimate empire : reading women's autobiography / / Gillian Whitlock
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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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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Cassell, 2000 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9/9287/09171241 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-220) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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, 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The intimate empire |
| ISBN: | 1-281-29152-8 |
| 9786611291525 | |
| 1-84714-240-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910825045203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Literature, culture, and identity.