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Postcolonial Life Narratives - Testimonial Transactions (Hardcover)
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Postcolonial Life Narratives - Testimonial Transactions (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures
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The 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.
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