{"product_id":"transgression-and-conformity-cuban-writers-and-artists-after-the-revolution-9780299197308","title":"Transgression and Conformity: Cuban Writers and Artists After the Revolution","description":"Philip Holden reveals deeply gendered connections between the writing of individual lives and of the narratives of nations emerging from colonialism. \u003ci\u003eAutobiography and Decolonization\u003c\/i\u003e 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to autobiographies of nationalist leaders in the process of decolonization, attending to them not simply as partial historical documents, but as texts involved in remaking the world views of their readers.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 \u003ci\u003eAn Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth\u003c\/i\u003e, Marcus Garvey s fragmentary \u003ci\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/i\u003e, Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford s \u003ci\u003eEthiopia Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e, Lee Kuan Yew s \u003ci\u003eThe Singapore Story\u003c\/i\u003e, Nelson Mandela s \u003ci\u003eLong Walk to Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e, Jawaharlal Nehru s \u003ci\u003eAn Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e, and Kwame Nkrumah s \u003ci\u003eGhana: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Linda S. Howe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 6.30w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299197308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLinda S. Howe is associate professor of Spanish and director of Latin American Studies at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39952729047155,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_0adfba7e-94bc-41fe-9d04-104a2e4f3011.jpg?v=1648564492","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/transgression-and-conformity-cuban-writers-and-artists-after-the-revolution-9780299197308","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}