Title Postcolonial life-writing : culture, politics and self-representation / Bart Moore-Gilbert

Edition 1st ed Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 171 pages) Series Postcolonial literatures Postcolonial literatures. Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Centred and decentred Selves; 2 Relational Selves; 3 Embodied Selves; 4 Located Selves; 5 Working the borders of genre in postcolonial life-writing; 6 Non-western narrative resources in postcolonial life-writing; 7 Political Self-representation in postcolonial life-writing; Notes; Select bibliography; Index Summary At a time when concepts of identity and self-representation are abundant in both literary and cultural studies, Postcolonialsim and Life-Writing, brings together the two increasingly popular and important fields of postcolonial studies and life writing Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-166) and index Notes Print version record Subject 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. Biography. Autobiographies as Topic Biographies as Topic autobiography (genre) biographies (literary works) biography (general genre) LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Autobiography Biography as a literary form Commonwealth literature (English) Identity (Psychology) in literature Literature Postcolonialism in literature Self in literature SUBJECT Commonwealth countries -- In literature Subject Commonwealth countries Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780415442992 0415442990 9780415443005 0415443008 9780203876244 0203876245 9781134106936 1134106939

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