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Gandhi’s Autobiographical Construction of Selfhood - The Story of His Experiments with Truth (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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Gandhi’s Autobiographical Construction of Selfhood - The Story of His Experiments with Truth (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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This book addresses the topics of autobiography,
self-representation and status as a writer in Mahatma Gandhi's
autobiographical work The Story of My Experiments with
Truth (1927, 1929). Gandhi remains an elusive figure, despite
the volumes of literature written on him in the seven decades since
his assassination. Scholars and biographers alike agree that “no
work on his life has portrayed him in totality” (Desai, 2009),
and, although “arguably the most popular figure of the first half
of the twentieth century” and “one of the most eminent
luminaries of our time,” Gandhi the individual remains “as much
an enigma as a person of endless fascination” (Murrell, 2008).
Yet there has been relatively little scholarly engagement with
Gandhi’s autobiography, and published output has largely been
concerned with mining the text for its biographical details, with
little concern for how Gandhi represents himself. The author
addresses this gap in the literature, while also considering Gandhi
as a writer. This book provides a close reading of the linguistic
structure of the text with particular focus upon Gandhi’s
self-representation, drawing on a cognitive stylistic framework for
analysing linguistic representations of selfhood (Emmott 2002). It
will be of interest to stylisticians, cognitive linguists,
discourse analysts, and scholars in related fields such as Indian
literature and postcolonial studies.
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