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The 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Cassell,
2000.
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| Colección: | Literature, culture, and identity.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 232 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781847142405 1847142400 |