The intimate empire
Subtitle: reading women's autobiography
By: Gillian Whitlock.
Series: Literature, culture, and identity
Publisher: Cassell; Bloomsbury Academic; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Prince, Mary.; Commonwealth literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Autobiography -- Women authors.; English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; English prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- Commonwealth countries.; Imperialism in literature.; Colonies in literature.; Self in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I Autobiography and slavery: Believing the History of Mary Prince; title: Black and white; title: The 'history' of Mary Prince; title: Marginalia: oppositional reading; title: Mr Pringle: editor; title: Miss Strickland: the 'other' woman; title: Authorization: reading the body of the slave; title: Volatile bodies; title: The return of Mary Prince; title: 2 Settler subjects; title: Blood and milk: Roughing It in the Bush; title: Colonizer and colonized; title: Grosse Isle, summer 1832; title: Emigration in the time of cholera; title: Conduct books: The Backwoods of Canada; title: Autobiography and adjacency: Mr and Mrs Moodie; title: Domesticity: the race made flesh; title: 3 Travelling in memory of slavery; title: Britannia's daughters; title: Jamaica: the legacy of the plantation; title: The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole; title: Creole travelling; title: Mary Gaunt: writing a master narrative; title: The Buckra lady; title: Romance and slavery; title: 4 Kenya: The land that never was; title: Finding Karen Blixen; title: Quartet; Blixen, Simpson, Markham and Huxley; title: Dystopian autobiography: The Land That Never Was; title: Autobiography at Independence: :The flaine Trees of Thika; title: Out of Africa: the biography of the white hunter; title: The new pioneer: West with the Night; title: Smoke and mirrors; title: 5 Autobiography and resistance:; title: Reading across the South; title: Autobiography after Soweto; title: Call Me Woman; title: Black Australian autobiography; title: Sally Morgan and Ruby Langfrd Ginibi: the making; title: of Aboriginality; title: Black writers/white readers; title: Bodiless women; title: 6 In memory of the colonial child; title: Autobiography ad topia; title: A Childhood Perceived: Penelope Lively; title: Under My Skin: Doris Lessing; title: Rhodesia: the lost world; title: Accessing the pst; title: Reading across the Straits; title: Connected reading: the agency of the reader; title: Select bibliography; title: Index.