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Author:   Astrid Rasch (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138223219

ISBN 10:   1138223212
Pages:   156
Publication Date:   25 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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