Postcolonial life-writing : culture, politics and self-representation / Bart Moore-Gilbert.
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TextSeries: Postcolonial literatures: Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009Edition: 1st edDescription: xxvi, 171 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780415442992 (hbk); 0415442990 (hbk); 9780415443005 (pbk); 0415443008 (pbk); 9780203876244 (ebook); 0203876245 (ebook)Subject(s): Commonwealth | Autobiography | Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism | Authors, Commonwealth -- Biography -- History and criticism | Self in literature | Identity (Psychology) in literature | Postcolonialism in literature | Biography as a literary form | Autobiographies as Topic | Biographies as Topic | Commonwealth countries -- In literatureGenre/Form: Autobiography | Autobiographies | Criticism, interpretation, etc. | Autobiographies | Autobiographies.DDC classification: 820.9 GIL-P ENG. 85742Ss LOC classification: PR9080.5 | .M66 2009| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-166) and index.
Centred and decentred selves -- Relational selves -- Embodied selves -- Located selves -- Working the borders of genre in postcolonial life-writing -- Non-western narrative resources in postcolonial life-writing -- Political self-representation in postcolonial life-writing.
At a time when concepts of identity and self-representation are abundant in both literary and cultural studies, this book brings together the two increasingly popular and important fields of postcolonial studies and life writing.
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