Postcolonial Life-Writing

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Postcolonial Life-Writing

Culture, Politics, and Self-Representation

Comparative literature Cultural studies

Author: Bart Moore-Gilbert

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Collection: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 8th June 2009

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 430 Kb

ISBN: 9781134106929


Postcolonial 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.

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