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

Published London ; New York : Cassell, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 232 pages) Series Literature, culture, and identity Literature, culture, and identity. 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Prince, Mary. History of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave. SUBJECT Commonwealth gnd History of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave (Prince, Mary) fast Subject Commonwealth literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism Autobiography -- Women authors. English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism English prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Women and literature -- Commonwealth countries Imperialism in literature. Colonies in literature. Self in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Autobiography -- Women authors Colonies in literature Commonwealth literature (English) -- Women authors English prose literature Imperialism in literature Self in literature Women and literature Schriftstellerin Autobiografie Autobiografieën. Engels. Vrouwen. Kolonialisme. Autobiographie -- Femmes écrivains. Littérature anglophone. Commonwealth countries Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781847142405 1847142400

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