Postcolonial Life-Writing: Culture, Politics, and Self-Representation

by Bart J. Moore-Gilbert

Book Overview

Postcolonial Life-Writing is the first attempt to offer a sustained critique of this increasingly visible and influential field of cultural production.

Bart Moore-Gilbert considers the relationship between postcolonial life-writing and its western analogues, identifying the key characteristics that differentiate the genre in the postcolonial context. Focusing particularly on writing styles and narrative conceptions of the Self, this book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007YZRB42
• ISBN13: 9780415443005
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"