The Intimate Empire

by Gillian Whitlock

Book Overview

By means of contextualized readings, this work argues that autobiographic writing allows an intimate access to processes of colonization and decolonization, incorporation and resistance, and the formation and reformation of identities which occurs in postcolonial space. The book explores the interconnections between race, gender, autobiography and colonialism and uses a method of reading which looks for connections between very different autobiographical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0304706000
• ISBN13: 9780304706006
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"