De/Colonizing the Subject surveys women's autobiographical practices as they have arisen within and confronted the contexts of colonization and oppression. Challenging a universalism that reduces whole cultures to contained stereotypes and persons to cult.
De/Colonizing the Subject surveys women's autobiographical practices as they have arisen within and confronted the contexts of colonization and oppression. Challenging a universalism that reduces whole cultures to contained stereotypes and persons to cult.
Challenging the prevailing universalism that reduces whole cultures to contained stereotypes and persons to cultural representations, "De/Colonizing the Subject" frames the newest frontier of critical investigation -- colonial and postcolonial autobiography of the embodies subje…
Originally published in 1991. The style of this startlingly original appraisal of a broad range of women's writing suggests a new direction for feminist criticism, combining as it does challenging, intellectual debate and fresh textual analysis with fictional example and autobio…
