Philip Holden reveals deeply gendered connections between the writing of individual lives and of the narratives of nations emerging from colonialism. Autobiography and Decolonization is the first book to give serious academic attention to autobiographies of nationalist leaders in the process of decolonization, attending to them not simply as partial historical documents, but as texts involved in remaking the world views of their readers. Holden examines Mohandas K. Gandhi’s An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Marcus Garvey’s fragmentary Autobiography,Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford’s Ethiopia Unbound, Lee Kuan Yew’s The Singapore Story, Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom, Jawaharlal Nehru’s An Autobiography, and Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana:The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah. Holden argues that these examples of life writing have had significant influence on the formation of new, and often profoundly gendered, national identities. These narratives constitute the nation less as an imagined community than as an imagined individual. Moving from the past to the promise of the future, they mediate relationships between public and private, and between individual and collective stories. Ultimately, they show how the construction of modern selfhood is inextricably linked to the construction of a postcolonial polity.

Autobiography and Decolonization: Modernity, Masculinity, and the Nation-State (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)

Biographies & Memoirs

Holden, Philip

Community & Culture

University of Wisconsin Press

Fawn: The first year in the life of a red deer in New Zealand

Hodder&Stoughton

The hunting breed

Hodder and Stoughton

Truly amazing! The early hunting in New Zealand before the start of commercial type hunts of today.

The Golden Years of Hunting in New Zealand

Hunting Experience

Sports & Outdoors

Station Country II: Returning

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Hodder Moa Beckett Publishers Ltd

Station country: Back-country life in New Zealand

The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English (Routledge Concise Histories of Literature)

The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English traces the development of literature in the region within its historical and cultural contexts. This volume explores creative writing in English across different genres and media, establishing connections from the colonial activity of the early modern period through to contemporary writing across Southeast Asia, focusing especially on the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. In this critical guide, Rajeev S. Patke and Philip Holden: <ul>
<li>interweave text and context through the history of creative writing in the region</li> <li>examine language use and variation, making use of illuminating examples from speech, poetry and fictional prose</li> <li>trace the impact of historical, political and cultural events</li> <li>engage with current debates on national consciousness, globalization, modernity and postmodernism</li> <li>provide useful features including a glossary, further reading section and chapter summaries. </li> </ul>
Direct and clearly written, this Concise History guides readers through key topics while presenting a unique, original synthesis of history and practice in Southeast Asian writing in English. It is the ideal starting point for students and all those seeking a better understanding of Southeast Asian literatures and cultures.

Literature & Fiction

Patke, Rajeev S.

History & Criticism

Routledge

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The Excellent Manager's Companion

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Ashgate Publishing

The Excellent Manager's Business Library

Gower Publishing Company

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