Gandhi’s Autobiographical Construction of Selfhood - The Story of His Experiments with Truth (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)

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.  

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	March 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Clara Neary
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	112
Edition:	1st ed. 2023
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-122785-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	3-03-122785-9
Barcode:	9783031227851

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