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About the Author
Gillian Whitlock is an Australian Research Council professorial fellow at the University of Queensland, where she is currently working on archives of asylum seeker testimony and a new project called 'The Testimony of Things'. She is a graduate of Queen's University and the University of Queensland with a long-standing interest in the 'intimate empire' of postcolonial life writing. Her last book, Soft Weapons is a study of life narrative and the war on terror. She is a member of the Australian Academy of Humanities, and a board member of the Australia India Council.
Reviews
The introduction of Gillian Whitlocks Postcolonial Life Narratives: Testimonial Transactions immediately alerts readers to its impressive scope. The book successfully draws connections between life writing produced and read in disparate places at disparate times by disparate audiences in order to demonstrate the ways in which life writing can articulate the impact of conflicted human subjecthood on bodies, lives, and peoples. * Richard Moran, English Studies in Canada *
Postcolonial Life Narratives makes a truly eye-opening read * Kerry-Jane Wallart, Commonwealth Essays and Studies *
Postcolonial Life Narratives is both a useful introduction to a topic and an intervention that will provoke future debate and research...Textual absences are, of course, places for scholarship to inhabit. It is to Whitlocks credit that Postcolonial Life Narratives provides a method of inquiry that might be expanded to other texts from different historical periods and also provokes renewed discussion of the intersections of life writing, testimony, and the ongoing legacy of postcolonial studies. * Philip Holden, Biography *
Book Information
ISBN 9780199560639
Author Gillian Whitlock
Format Hardback
Page Count 252
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 402g
Dimensions(mm) 207mm * 136mm * 21mm