Biography, Autobiography and Fiction: Introduction
As Elleke Boehmer points out in her book Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, writing biographies and autobiographies was for postcolonial writers an act of individual and collective assertiveness and reconstruction. It was a way of representing in writing the unity of the group and of the self wh...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| Rochtain ar líne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Achoimre: | As Elleke Boehmer points out in her book Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, writing biographies and autobiographies was for postcolonial writers an act of individual and collective assertiveness and reconstruction. It was a way of representing in writing the unity of the group and of the self when faced with deprivation, humiliation or displacement. However, although the abundance of social and historical issues provided easily accessible material for patterns of mimetic representation, p... |
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