Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives

by Emma Parker

The dismantlement of the British Empire had a profound impact on many celebrated white Anglophone writers of the twentieth century, particularly those who were raised in former British colonial territories and returned to the metropole after the Second World War. Formal decolonisation meant that these authors were unable to 'go home' to their colonial childhoods, a historical juncture with profound consequences for how they wrote and recorded...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350353795
• ISBN13: 9781350353794
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"