Introduction: Life Writing After Empire Astrid Rasch
1. Collusions and Imbrications: Life Writing and Colonial Spaces Charles Lock
2. Tears and Garlands: Lim Chin Siong, Coldstore, and the End(s) of Narrative Philip Holden
3. ‘National Awakening’, Autobiography, and the Invention of Manning Clark Mark McKenna
4. The Relational Imaginary of M.G. Vassanji’s A Place Within Vera Alexander
5. ‘A Nation on the Move’: The Indian Constitution, Life Writing and Cosmopolitanism Javed Majeed
6. ‘This Union-Jacked Time’: Memories of Education as Post-Imperial Positioning Astrid Rasch
7. Gibraltarian Oral Histories: Walking the Line Between Critical Distance and Subjectivity Jennifer Ballantine Perera and Andrew Canessa
8. Review: How Empire Shaped Us, edited by Antoinette Burton and Dane Kennedy Stephen Howe
Afterword – The Ends of Empire: In memory of Bart Moore-Gilbert, 1952-2015 Gillian Whitlock
Biography
Astrid Rasch teaches imperial history and postcolonial literature in the English Department at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She recently submitted her Ph.D. thesis ‘Remembering Britishness: Negotiating Identity in End of Empire Autobiography’, which examines the relationship between individual and collective memory after decolonisation in autobiographies from the Caribbean, Australia, and Zimbabwe.
