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De/colonizing the subject : the politics of gender in women's autobiography / Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women's studies--Biographical methods.
- Women's studies.
- Autobiography--Women authors.
- Autobiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxi, 484 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- De/Colonizing the Subject surveys women's autobiographical practices as they have arisen within and confronted the contexts of colonization and oppression. Challenging a universalism that reduces whole cultures to contained stereotypes and persons to cult
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: De/Colonization and the Politics of Discourse in Women's Autobiographical Practices; Part 1 Autobiographical Identities and Cultural Interventions; Part 2 Theorizing the Politics of Form; Part 3 Negotiating Class and Race; Part 4 The Counterhegemonic ""I""; Part 5 The Body and the Colonizer; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8403-0
- 0-8166-1992-1
- OCLC:
- 246970869
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