Postcolonial Life-Writing: Culture, Politics, and Self-Representation (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)

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 uncovers a distinctive parallel tradition of auto/biographical writing and analyses its cultural and political significance. Original and provocative, this book brings together the two distinct fields of Postcolonial Studies and Auto/biography Studies in a fruitful and much needed dialogue. Book Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Centred and decentred Selves 2 Relational Selves 3 Embodied Selves 4 Located Selves 5 Working the borders of genre in postcolonial life-writing 6 Non-western narrative resources in postcolonial life-writing 7 Political Self-representation in postcolonial life-writing Notes Select bibliography Index At a time when concepts of identity and self-representation are abundant in both literary and cultural studies, Postcolonialsim and Life-Writing, brings together the two increasingly popular and important fields of postcolonial studies and life writing. At a time when concepts of identity and self-representation are abundant in both literary and cultural studies, this book brings together the two increasingly popular and important fields of postcolonial studies and life writing