Gillian Whitlock

Postcolonial Life Narrative: Testimonial Transactions

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Studies in Postcolonial
• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 132mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780199560639
• ISBN-10: 0199560633
• Artikelnr.: 42678294

Autorenporträt

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 on terror. She is a member of the Australian Academy of Humanities, and a board member of the Australia India Council.

Inhaltsangabe

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