Autobiography Out of Empire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4195514 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Lowe (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 98-111 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1534-6714 • E-ISSN: 0799-0537 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/07990537-2008-009 |
| OpenAlex | W2171778235 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 15 |
In Reconstructing Womanhood, Hazel Carby showed us that reading lost histories required the deconstruction of liberal institutions and ideologies that had worked to render them illegible. My contribution takes up this dimension of Carby's work as I discuss the place of the autobiographical genre in reckoning with histories of slavery and empire, beginning with The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789), and concluding with Carby's own autobiography-in-progress, "Child of Empire: Racializing Subjects in Post World War II Britain
Ancient history · Art · Biography · Deconstruction (building · Empire · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
In the break
The black Atlantic
Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature
Sweetness and power
Cities of the Dead
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution 1770-1823
The Black Jacobins
Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
Black Reconstruction in America
Saltwater Slavery
Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (review)
The Global Eighteenth Century
Haunted by Empire
| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2021 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |