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An edition of The intimate empire (2000)

The intimate empire

reading women's autobiography

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English
Pages
232

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The intimate empire: reading women's autobiography
2000, Cassell, Bloomsbury Academic, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: I Autobiography and slavery: Believing the History of Mary Prince
Black and white
The 'history' of Mary Prince
Marginalia: oppositional reading
Mr Pringle: editor
Miss Strickland: the 'other' woman
Authorization: reading the body of the slave
Volatile bodies
The return of Mary Prince
2 Settler subjects
Blood and milk: Roughing It in the Bush
Colonizer and colonized
Grosse Isle, summer 1832
Emigration in the time of cholera
Conduct books: The Backwoods of Canada
Autobiography and adjacency: Mr and Mrs Moodie
Domesticity: the race made flesh
3 Travelling in memory of slavery
Britannia's daughters
Jamaica: the legacy of the plantation
The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole
Creole travelling
Mary Gaunt: writing a master narrative
The Buckra lady
Romance and slavery
4 Kenya: The land that never was
Finding Karen Blixen
Quartet; Blixen, Simpson, Markham and Huxley
Dystopian autobiography: The Land That Never Was
Autobiography at Independence: :The flaine Trees of Thika
Out of Africa: the biography of the white hunter
The new pioneer: West with the Night
Smoke and mirrors
5 Autobiography and resistance:
Reading across the South
Autobiography after Soweto
Call Me Woman
Black Australian autobiography
Sally Morgan and Ruby Langfrd Ginibi: the making
of Aboriginality
Black writers/white readers
Bodiless women
6 In memory of the colonial child
Autobiography ad topia
A Childhood Perceived: Penelope Lively
Under My Skin: Doris Lessing
Rhodesia: the lost world
Accessing the pst
Reading across the Straits
Connected reading: the agency of the reader
Select bibliography
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-220) and index.

Published in
London, New York
Series
Literature, culture, and identity

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
820.9/9287/09171241
Library of Congress
PR9080.5 .W47 2000, PR9080.5.W47 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 232 p. ;
Number of pages
232

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL39933M
Internet Archive
intimateempirere00whit
ISBN 10
0304705993, 0304706000
LCCN
99029898
OCLC/WorldCat
41361463
Goodreads
2277043
1653987

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