Other modernities: national autobiography and globalization.

From: Biography | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Holden, Philip | Copyright information

"This 'autobiographical narrative'," wrote Jawaharlal Nehru in the preface to his 1936 Autobiography, "remains a sketchy, personal, and incomplete account of the past, verging on the present, but cautiously avoiding contact with it" (xiii). Nehru was perhaps being overly modest here, for his account of a personal past would become a paradigmatic narrative. In its mapping of individual onto national story, Nehru's text became the model for a series of national autobiographies writte...

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