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Postcolonial life narratives : testimonial transactions / / Gillian Whitlock



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Autore: Whitlock Gillian Visualizza persona
Titolo: Postcolonial life narratives : testimonial transactions / / Gillian Whitlock Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015
©2015
Edizione: First edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
Disciplina: 820.93509171241
Soggetto topico: Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism
Postcolonialism in literature
Classificazione: 17.76
17.86
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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 narrative in the late eighteenth century to contemporary Anglophone life narrative from Africa, Australia, the
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ISBN: 0-19-105423-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910797052903321
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Serie: Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English.