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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

Commonwealth literature (English) --- Autobiography --- Women and literature --- English prose literature --- Imperialism in literature. --- Colonies in literature. --- Self in literature. --- Literature --- Autobiography of women --- Women's autobiography --- Commonwealth of Nations literature (English) --- English literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors. --- History --- Commonwealth of Nations authors --- Prince, Mary. --- COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE (ENGLISH) --- WOMEN AND LITERATURE --- ENGLISH PROSE --- IMPERIALISM IN LITERATURE --- COLONIES IN LITERATURE --- PRINCE (MARY) --- SLAVERY IN LITERATURE --- BLIXEN (KAREN) --- LIVELY (PENELOPE) --- LESSING (DORIS), 1919 --- -AUTOBIOGRAPHIE (GENRE LITTERAIRE) --- IDENTITE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- WOMEN AUTHORS --- COMMONWEALTH --- 20th CENTURY --- FEMMES ECRIVAINS --- Colonies in literature

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Sociology of literature --- English literature --- anno 1800-1999 --- Postcolonialisme --- Pays de langue anglaise --- Dans la littérature

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Bibliografie --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- History and criticism

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Postcolonial life narratives" draws together two dynamic fields of contemporary literature and criticism, postcolonialism and life narrative, to create a new assemblage: postcolonial life narrative. Focusing in particular on testimonial narrative, from slave narrative in the late eighteenth century to contemporary Anglophone life narrative from Africa, Australia, the Caribbean, Palestine, North America, and India, this study follows texts on the move through adaptation, appropriation, and remediation. For postcolonial subjects life narrative offers extraordinary opportunities to present accounts of social injustice and oppression, of violence and social suffering. Testimonial narrative can reach across cultures to produce intimate attachments between those who testify and those who bear witness to legacies of apartheid, slavery, rape warfare, genocide, and dispossession. Thresholds of testimony are subject to change and for some, for example refugees and asylum seekers, opportunities to engage a witnessing public and inspire campaigns for social justice on their behalf are curtailed-these are the 'ends of testimony'. The production, circulation, and reception of testimonial life narrative connects directly to the most fundamental questions of who counts as human, what rights follow from this, and what makes for grievable life. Postcolonial life narrative is a dynamic field of literature and criticism, and this book presents a series of proximate readings that outline its distinctive imaginative geographies.

Postcolonialism in literature --- English literature --- Personal narratives --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Littérature anglaise --- Récits personnels --- Themes, motives --- Thèmes, motifs --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Littérature anglophone --- Autobiographie --- Histoire et critique --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- Autobiography --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Littérature anglaise --- Récits personnels --- Thèmes, motifs --- Histoire et critique.

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Moeurs et coutumes --- Australia --- Australie --- History. --- Social life and customs. --- Histoire.