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Index
POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Postcolonial theories of autobiography and autobiography in postcolonial theory
Postcolonial theories of autobiography
Autobiography in postcolonial theory
Postcolonial theory as situated knowledge
Cases against autobiographical theory: culturalism and identity politics
Autobiographical postcolonialism
References
2 De-defining autobiography
Exile and the writing-thing
Roots and routes: the biography of a theory
The consistency of identity: Freud
Beyond the discursive threshold: Said the autobiographer
References
3 Inventing the postcolonial author
Postcolonialism and dialectical thought
Constructing authorship: Barthes and Foucault
Western subjectivity from Descartes
Said on ideas of textuality
Postcolonial personalism
References
4 Writing spirits autobiography
Preface
Philosophy and history
Language and situation
Chance and autobiography
References
5 Full disclosure and the native informant in postcolonial theory
Questioning narration
Cults of personality
Opening arguments
Identity politics
Subaltern testimony
Deconstruction as impossible autobiography
Spivak’s singularity
Partial disclosure
References
6 Singularity and postcolonial exemplarity
The Universal and the same
Autobiographical universals
Conclusion
References
7 Bibliography
Index
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