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Postcolonial Life Narratives - Testimonial Transactions

English · Paperback / Softback

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Zusatztext Postcolonial Life Narratives makes a truly eye-opening read Informationen zum Autor Gillian Whitlock is an Australian Research Council professorial fellow at the University of Queensland, where she is currently working on archives of asylum seeker testimony and a new project called 'The Testimony of Things'. She is a graduate of Queen's University and the University of Queensland with a long-standing interest in the 'intimate empire' of postcolonial life writing. Her last book, Soft Weapons is a study of life narrative and the war onterror. She is a member of the Australian Academy of Humanities, and a board member of the Australia India Council. Klappentext Postcolonial Life Narrative traces the long and vibrant tradition of autobiographical writing in colonial and postcolonial literatures. Drawing together a selection of topics and texts from Africa! the Caribbean! Africa! North America! and India! it encourages readers to take a more expansive and innovative approach to this emerging field. Zusammenfassung Postcolonial Life Narrative traces the long and vibrant tradition of autobiographical writing in colonial and postcolonial literatures. Drawing together a selection of topics and texts from Africa, the Caribbean, Africa, North America, and India, it encourages readers to take a more expansive and innovative approach to this emerging field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part 1: Colonial Testimonial 1789-1852; Part 2: The Passages of testimony: contemporary studies; Afterlives: In the wake of the TRC; Remediation: Rape Warfare and Humanitarian Storytelling; Thresholds of Testimony: Indigeneity! Nation and Narration; The Ends of Testimony; Salvage

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Authors Gillian Whitlock
Publisher Oxford University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 02.04.2015
 
EAN 9780199560622
ISBN 978-0-19-956062-2
No. of pages 252
Series Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures
Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures
Oxford Studies in Postcolonial
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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