18 books like Postcolonial theory and autobiography

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The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin · 1974 · ★ 4.3 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the planet, Anarres, to challenge… Shares: Community pick

Mediating Memory Bunty Avieson · 2017 · 344p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The argument has been made that memoir reflects and augments the narcissistic tendencies of our neo-liberal age. Mediating Memory: Tracing the Limits of Memoir challenges and dismantles that assumption. Focusing on the history, theory and practice of memoir writing, editors Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles and Sue Joseph provide a thorough and cutting-edge examination of memoir through the lenses of… Shares: Biography as a literary form, Biography & Memoir

Aspects de la biographie André Maurois · 1928 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Challenging « Y a-t-il une biographie moderne ? Est-elle une forme littéraire différente de la biographie traditionnelle ? Les méthodes qu'elle a suivies sont-elles légitimes, ou au contraire faut-il y renoncer ? La biographie doit-elle être un art ou une science ? Peut-elle être, comme le roman, un moyen d'expression, une délivrance pour l'auteur comme pour le lecteur ? Voilà quelques-uns des problèmes que… Shares: Biography as a literary form, Biography & Memoir

Life Writing and Victorian Culture David Amigoni · 2006 · 252p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "In this collection of interdisciplinary essays, experts from Britain and the United States in the fields of nineteenth-century literature, and social and cultural history explore new directions in the field of Victorian life writing. Chapters examine a varied yet interrelated range of genres, from the biography and autobiography, to the relatively neglected diary, collective biography, and… Shares: Biography as a literary form, Biography & Memoir

English biography before 1700 Donald A. Stauffer · 1930 · 392p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Meet Zoe Richards, the new kid at West End Elementary. She enjoys spending lunchtime with her two new friends, Felix and Victoria. But there's this other kid named Joshua who always sits by himself. Zoe wonders if she should make friends with him. Felix says Joshua is a cool guy, but Victoria thinks Joshua is weird. What should Zoe do?Growing up on the autism spectrum, I had a… Shares: Biography as a literary form, Biography & Memoir

Selfless Ego Lucia M. S. Galli · 2021 Shares: Biography as a literary form, Biography & Memoir

Drawing from life Jane Tolmie · 2013 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Meet Jerry Mathers, who, though resembling the middle-aged “Beaver,” bears no other relation, having been born in the 1970s when that illusion of American life was almost a decade dead. His mother, widowed by the Vietnam War, endured many years as a Woolworth’s clerk to bring Jerry up in a “nice neighborhood,” enabling him to go to college and fulfill his dreams of being an artist... at least… Shares: Biography as a literary form, Biography & Memoir

Life Writing after Empire Astrid Rasch · 2016 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Moderate A watershed moment of the twentieth century, the end of empire saw upheavals to global power structures and national identities. However, decolonisation profoundly affected individual subjectivities too. Life Writing After Empire examines how people around the globe have made sense of the post-imperial condition through the practice of life writing in its multifarious expressions, from… Shares: Biography as a literary form, Biography & Memoir

Autobiographical Writing and Identity in EFL Education Shizhou Yang · 2013 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The book explores the pedagogical potential of autobiographical writing in English-as-a-foreign language, approaching the topic from an educational, longitudinal, dialogical, and social perspective. Through a number of case studies, the author delineates four phases that EFL writers may experience in their identity construction processes, illustrating the complexity of EFL writers’ social… Shares: Biography as a literary form, Biography & Memoir

Poetics of Arabic Autobiography Ariel M. Sheetrit · 2020 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Moderate This book examines the poetics of autobiographical masterpieces written in Arabic by Leila Abouzeid, Hanan al-Shaykh, Samuel Shimon, Abd al-Rahman Munif, Salim Barakat, Mohamed Choukri and Hanna Abu Hanna. These literary works articulate the life story of each author in ways that undermine the expectation that the "self"—the "auto" of autobiography—would be the dominant narrative focus. Although… Shares: Biography as a literary form, Biography & Memoir

Auto/Biography Across the Americas Ricia A. Chansky · 2016 · 261p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Auto/biographical narratives of the Americas are marked by the underlying themes of movement and belonging. This collection proposes that the impact of the historic or contemporary movement of peoples to, in, and from the Americas—whether chosen or forced—motivates the ways in which identities are constructed in this contested space. Such movement results in a cyclical quest to belong, and to… Shares: Biography as a literary form, Biography & Memoir

Autobiographics in Freud and Derrida Jane Marie Todd · 2015 · 223p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Originally published in 1990. This uniquely fascinating study approaches the problem of autobiography from two directions: first assessing theories of the self, consciousness and language developed by both Freud and Derrida; second through the reading of the autobiographical aspects of their writings. The book begins with looking at the issue of making sense of a life by means of representation,… Shares: Biography as a literary form, Biography & Memoir

Inscribed Identities Joan Ramon Resina · 2019 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Autobiography is a long-established literary modality of self-exposure with commanding works such as Augustine’s Confessions, Rousseau’s book of the same title, and Salvador Dalí’s paradoxical reformulation of that title in his Unspeakable Confessions. Like all genres with a distinguished career, autobiography has elicited a fair amount of critical and theoretical reflection. Classic works by… Shares: Biography as a literary form, Biography & Memoir

Life Writing from the Margins in Zimbabwe Oliver Nyambi · 2019 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Moderate This book explores the unique contributions of various forms of post-2000 life-writings such as the autobiography, epistles, and biographies, to discourses about the nature and socio-politics of what has become known as the Zimbabwean crisis (c. 2000–2009).Much of what has been written about the Zimbabwean crisis – a decade-long period of unprecedented economic collapse and political upheavals in… Shares: Biography as a literary form, Biography & Memoir

Writing a woman's life Carolyn G. Heilbrun · 1988 · ★ 4.1 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Drawing on the experience of celebrated women, from George Sand and Virginia Woolf to Dorothy Sayers and Adrienne Rich, Heilbrun examines the struggle these writers undertook when their drives made it impossible for them to follow the traditional "male" script for a woman's life. Refreshing and insightful, this is an homage to brave women past and present, and an invitation to all women to write… Shares: Biography as a literary form, Biography & Memoir

The Library of American Biography Jared Sparks · 1846 · 402p · ≈ 13h · Challenging This book itself comprises and also is a collection of letters by varied political and social personalities in reference with the American Revolution. These letters are also concerned with the foreign relations of United States during the whole revolution. Also, it reflects the political framing in the United States. Shares: Biography & Memoir

A history of autobiography in antiquity Georg Misch · 1950 · 364p · ≈ 12h · Moderate This is Volume IV of 9 historical works from the International Library of Sociology. This is part one of two looking at the history of the autobiography. Appearing in isolation as they do, autobiographies demand for their description and appreciation, a comprehensive view of the development of the human mind. This volume covers the conception and the origin of autobiography, looking at ancient… Shares: Biography & Memoir

Mr. Nice Howard Marks · 1996 · 468p · ≈ 15h · Moderate This candid crime memoir by Britain's most famous drug baron is "frequently hilarious, occasionally sad, and often surreal" (GQ).   During the mid-1980s Howard Marks had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines, and owned 25 companies throughout the world. From local bars to recording studios to offshore banks—all of his "businesses" were in fact money laundering vehicles serving his one true business:… Shares: Biography & Memoir

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