Postcolonial life narratives : testimonial transactions
La 4e de couverture indique : "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...
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford university press
2015.
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| Schriftenreihe: | Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures
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| 100 | 1 | |a Whitlock, Gillian, |d 1953- | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Postcolonial life narratives : |b testimonial transactions |c Gillian Whitlock. |
| 260 | |a Oxford, United Kingdom : |b Oxford university press, |c 2015. | ||
| 300 | |a 1 vol. (VI-242 p.) ; |c 21 cm. | ||
| 490 | 0 | |a Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures | |
| 504 | |a Bibliogr. p. [205]-230. Index | ||
| 520 | |a La 4e de couverture indique : "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" | ||
| 650 | |a Littérature postcoloniale | ||
| 650 | |a Littérature anglophone | ||
| 650 | |a Autobiographie | ||
| 650 | |a Postcolonialisme |x Dans la littérature | ||
| 650 | |a Postcolonialisme |z Commonwealth | ||
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