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The intimate empire : reading women's autobiography / / Gillian Whitlock



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Autore: Whitlock Gillian <1953-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The intimate empire : reading women's autobiography / / Gillian Whitlock Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-29152-8
9786611291525
1-84714-240-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825045203321
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Serie: Literature, culture, and identity.