Interview with João Mário Grilo
This paper looks at how two immigrant autobiographies can be read and understood from a postcolonial perspective. Emphasis is placed on the theoretical framework of Postcolonial Studies and how the presence of a hegemonic “other” can influence the formation of identity. More specifically, I will show how the culture of the “colonizer” is internalized and how the two authors assimilate the cultural dominant befo...
Autobiography is intriguingly complex and dependent on the autobiographer’s access to memory. This access, however, becomes increasingly selective and susceptible with the passing of time. It is within the context of this frailty, that I will attempt to look at the construction of memory and detect its use in two autobiographies from the Spanish-speaking world. Although the autobiographies of Luis Buñuel and Ru...
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