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100			_aWhitlock, Gillian.
245			_aPostcolonial life Narratives : _bTestimonial Transactions/ _cGillian Whitlock.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aOxford, U.K. : _bOxford University Press, _c2015.
300			_avi, 242 pages : _c21 cm.
440			_aOxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English.
505			_t1. Colonial testimonial, 1789-1852 -- _t2. Olaudah Equiano and Watkin Tench, London, 1789 -- _t3. Bennelong's letter, Sydney Cove, 29 August 1796 -- _t4. Saartjie Baartman, St James Square, London, 27 November 1810 -- _t5. The history of Mary Prince, Claremont Square, London, 1831 -- _t6. Roughing it in the bush, Upper Canada, 1832-52 -- _t7. The life, history, and travels, of Kah-ge-ga-gah-Bowh, 1847 -- _t8. Proximate reading -- _t9. The passages of testimony : contemporary studies -- _t10. Afterlives : in the wake of the TRC -- _t11. Remediation : rape warfare and humanitarian storytelling -- _t12. Thresholds of testimony : indigeneity, nation, and narration -- _t13. The ends of testimony -- _t14. Salvage.
520			_aThe 'Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures' series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. 'Postcolonial life narrative' draws together two dynamic fields of contemporary literature and criticism, postcolonialism and life narrative, to create a new assemblage: postcolonial life narrative. Focusing in particular on testimonial narrative, from slave narrative in the late eighteenth century to contemporary Anglophone life narrative from Africa, Australia, the Caribbean, Palestine, North America, and India, this study follows texts on the move through adaptation, appropriation, and remediation. For postcolonial subjects life narrative offers extraordinary opportunities to present accounts of social injustice and oppression, of violence and social suffering. Testimonial narrative can reach across cultures to produce intimate attachments between those who testify and those who bear witness to legacies of apartheid, slavery, rape warfare, genocide, and dispossession. Thresholds of testimony are subject to change and for some, for example refugees and asylum seekers, opportunities to engage a witnessing public and inspire campaigns for social justice on their behalf are curtailed-these are the 'ends of testimony'. The production, circulation, and reception of testimonial life narrative connects directly to the most fundamental questions of who counts as human, what rights follow from this, and what makes for grievable life. Postcolonial life narrative is a dynamic field of literature and criticism, and this book presents a series of proximate readings that outline its distinctive imaginative geographies.
700			_a Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism.
700			_a Autobiography.
700			_a Postcolonialism in literature.
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