The Intimate Empire: Reading Women's Autobiography (Literature, Culture, and Identity) (Literature, Culture & Identity S.)

by Gillian Whitlock

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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 autobiography which focus on a limited Euro American canon, the book brings together contemporary and 19th-century women's autobiographies and travel writing...Read more
  • ISBN10 0304706000
  • ISBN13 9780304706006
  • Publish Date 1 February 2000 (first published 1 January 2000)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 256
  • Language English