Postcolonial Life-Writing: Culture, Politics, and Self-RepresentationPostcolonial Life-Writing is the first attempt to offer a sustained critique of this increasingly visible and influential field of cultural production. Bart Moore-Gilbert considers the relationship between postcolonial life-writing and its western analogues, identifying the key characteristics that differentiate the genre in the postcolonial context. Focusing particularly on writing styles and narrative conceptions of the Self, this book uncovers a distinctive parallel tradition of auto/biographical writing and analyses its cultural and political significance. Original and provocative, this book brings together the two distinct fields of Postcolonial Studies and Auto/biography Studies in a fruitful and much needed dialogue. |
Contents
1 Centred and decentred Selves | 1 |
2 Relational Selves | 17 |
3 Embodied Selves | 34 |
4 Located Selves | 51 |
5 Working the borders of genre in postcolonial lifewriting | 69 |
6 Nonwestern narrative resources in postcolonial lifewriting | 91 |
7 Political Selfrepresentation in postcolonial lifewriting | 111 |
Notes | 131 |
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Postcolonial Life-writing: Culture, Politics and Self-representation B. J. Moore-Gilbert No preview available - 2009 |
Postcolonial Life-writing: Culture, Politics and Self-representation B. J. Moore-Gilbert No preview available - 2009 |
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