Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere: Texts, Spaces, Resonances - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1350360759 ISBN 13 : 9781350360754

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024

Synopsis

The first book to explore life writing from the breadth of the southern hemisphere, this interdisciplinary and wide-ranging collection questions and realigns perspectives on the global south and expands the knowledge base that has thus far informed life narrative studies.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Elleke Boehmer is professor of world literature in English at the University of Oxford, and Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College. Internationally renowned for her research in post-colonial theory and the literature of empire, Professor Boehmer currently works on questions of migration, identity, and resistance in both colonial and post-colonial literature (sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia). She has published over eighteen books, including four novels; her best-selling biography of Nelson Mandela has been translated into Arabic, Portuguese, and Thai. She obtained her doctorate from Oxford University, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Katherine Collins is a poet and Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK. Her research spans the creative and critical practices involved in the writing of marginalised lives, such as the politics and poetics of life writing, testimonial cultures and witnessing, and autobiographies of resistance.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1350360759
• ISBN 13: 9781350360754
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 318
• Éditeur: Boehmer Elleke
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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