De/colonizing the subject : the politics of gender in women's autobiography / / Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, editors

• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 1992; ©1992
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxxi, 484 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.42/092/2
• Soggetto topico: Women's studies - Biographical methods; Autobiography - Women authors
• Altri autori: SmithSidonie WatsonJulia <1945->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: De/Colonization and the Politics of Discourse in Women's Autobiographical Practices; Part 1 Autobiographical Identities and Cultural Interventions; Part 2 Theorizing the Politics of Form; Part 3 Negotiating Class and Race; Part 4 The Counterhegemonic ""I""; Part 5 The Body and the Colonizer; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: De/Colonizing the Subject surveys women's autobiographical practices as they have arisen within and confronted the contexts of colonization and oppression. Challenging a universalism that reduces whole cultures to contained stereotypes and persons to cult
• Titolo autorizzato: De
• ISBN: 0-8166-8403-0; 0-8166-1992-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778382203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II