Unlike previous studies of autobiography which focus on a limited Euro American canon, the book brings together contemporary and 19th-century women's autobiographies and travel writing from Canada, the Caribbean, Kenya, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. With emphasis on the reader of autobiography as much as the subject, it argues that colonization and resistance are deeply embedded in thinking about the self.
Author Biography
Gillian Whitlock is an associate professor in the School of Humanities at Griffith University in Brisbane. She has degrees in postcolonial studies from the University of Queensland and Queen's University and has published widely in this area.
