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Intimate Empire : Reading Women's Autobiography.

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 interco...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Whitlock, Gillian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2000.
Colección:Literature, culture, and identity.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.