Life Writing After Empire

ISBN-13: 9780367075736 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 144 str.

Astrid Rasch

Opis

While the end of empire tends to be studied on the level of the collective, Life Writing After Empire examines how that moment has been experienced and expressed by individuals in life writing from across the globe. In a range of rich contributions, prominent scholars from a variety of disciplines offer new perspectives on the artistic and intimate articulation of empire and its legacies. This book was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.

Spis treści

Introduction: Life Writing After Empire  1. Collusions and Imbrications: Life Writing and Colonial Spaces  2. Tears and Garlands: Lim Chin Siong, Coldstore, and the End(s) of Narrative  3. ‘National Awakening’, Autobiography, and the Invention of Manning Clark  4. The Relational Imaginary of M.G. Vassanji’s A Place Within  5. ‘A Nation on the Move’: The Indian Constitution, Life Writing and Cosmopolitanism  6. ‘This Union-Jacked Time’: Memories of Education as Post-Imperial Positioning  7. Gibraltarian Oral Histories: Walking the Line Between Critical Distance and Subjectivity  8. Review: How Empire Shaped Us, edited by Antoinette Burton and Dane Kennedy  Afterword – The Ends of Empire: In memory of Bart Moore-Gilbert, 1952-2015

O autorze

Astrid Rasch teaches imperial history and postcolonial literature in the English Department at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She recently submitted her Ph.D. thesis ‘Remembering Britishness: Negotiating Identity in End of Empire Autobiography’, which examines the relationship between individual and collective memory after decolonisation in autobiographies from the Caribbean, Australia, and Zimbabwe.