Description:
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to autobiographies of nationalist leaders in the process of decolonization, attending to them not simply as partial historical documents, but as texts involved in remaking the world views of their readers.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 the autobiographies of: -Mohandas K. Gandhi
-Marcus Garvey
-Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford
-Lee Kuan Yew
-Nelson Mandela
-Jawaharlal Nehru
-and Kwame Nkrumah
Review Quotes: "Complex and nuanced in its treatment of colonialism, modernity, and the ways in which the leaders of emerging nations have identified themselves and their nation in one story."--Susanna Egan, University of British Columbia