The only efficient instrument
Subtitle: American women writers & the periodical, 1837-1916
By: edited by Aleta Feinsod Cane & Susan Alves.
Contributors: Cane, Aleta Feinsod, 1949-; Alves, Susan, 1958-
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Journalism -- United States -- History.; American periodicals -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-229) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part 1 Gender, Voice, and Self-Representation; title: 1 Testing and Testifying: The Hart Sisters; title: 2 The Heartbeat of a West Indian Slave:; title: The History of Mary Prince; title: 3 The Enigma of Arrival: Wonderful; title: Adventures of Mrs. Seacole; title: Part 2 The Estranging Sea 73; title: 4 "The Traveling Ulysses Scene":; title: Claude McKay's A Long Way from Home; title: and My Green Hills of Jamaica; title: 5 Blurred Genres, Blended Voices:; title: George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin; title: 6 Autobiographical Frameworks and; title: Linked Discourses: George Lamming's; title: The Pleasures of Exile and C. L. R. James's; title: Beyond a Boundary; title: 7 Poetic Autobiography: Derek Walcott's; title: Another Life; title: Part 3 Birthrights and Legacies; title: 8 Fragments of Epic Memory: V. S. Naipaul's; title: Finding the Center and A Way in the World; title: 9 Maternal Bonds: My Mother's Daughter:; title: The Autobiography of Anna Mahase., Snr.,; title: 1899-1978; title: 10 Colonist and Creole: Yseult Bridges's Child; title: of the Tropics and Jean Rhys's Smile Please; title: Part 4 Autobiography, Elegy, and; title: Gender Identification 227; title: 11 Beyond Consolation: Kamau Brathwaite's; title: The Zea Mexican Diary; title: 12 Death and Sexuality: Jamaica Kincaid's; title: My Brother.