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001 99029898
003 DLC
005 20050308184203.0
008 990429s2000 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 99029898
020 $a0304705993 (hbk.)
020 $a0304706000 (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $ab------
050 00 $aPR9080.5$b.W47 2000
082 00 $a820.9/9287/09171241$221
100 1 $aWhitlock, Gillian,$d1953-
245 14 $aThe intimate empire :$breading women's autobiography /$cGillian Whitlock.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bCassell,$c2000.
300 $aviii, 232 p. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aLiterature, culture, and identity
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [207]-220) and index.
505 8 $aMachine 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.
650 0 $aCommonwealth literature (English)$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAutobiography$xWomen authors.
650 0 $aEnglish prose literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish prose literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
600 10 $aPrince, Mary.$tHistory of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave.
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zCommonwealth countries.
650 0 $aImperialism in literature.
650 0 $aColonies in literature.
650 0 $aSelf in literature.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/99029898.html