Description: The first, comparative study of white life writers who migrated to Britain from colonies and former colonies after the Second World War, examining how their autobiographical writings address the legacies of empire.
Brief description: Emma Parker is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at Keele University, UK. Her research focusses on life writing, contemporary literature and colonialism. She has published articles in Critical Quarterly, Auto/Biography Studies, Life Writing, Wasafiri and Moving Worlds, and is a contributor to Documenting Trauma in Comics (2020). She is also co-editor of the collection British Culture After Empire (2022).
Review Quotes: "[A] masterful close reading of the life-writing of Penelope Lively, J. G. Ballard, Doris Lessing, and Janet Frame ... Parker's work should appeal to all scholars interested in the wider oeuvres of these major writers and also writing teachers, especially those involved with creative non-fiction, since her study adds new dimensions to the intersectionality of fiction and life-writing." --CHOICE