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Author Whitlock, Gillian, 1953-

Title The intimate empire : reading women's autobiography / Gillian Whitlock.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Cassell, 2000.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 232 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Literature, culture, and identity
Literature, culture, and identity.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index.
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.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Prince, Mary. History of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave.
Commonwealth.
Commonwealth literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Commonwealth literature (English) -- Women authors.
Commonwealth literature (English)
Autobiography -- Women authors.
Autobiography -- Women authors.
English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English prose literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject English prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Women and literature -- Commonwealth countries.
Women and literature.
Commonwealth countries.
Imperialism in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Self in literature.
Self in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Whitlock, Gillian, 1953- Intimate empire. London ; New York : Cassell, 2000 0304705993 9780304705993 (DLC) 99029898 (OCoLC)41361463
ISBN 9781847142405 (electronic book)
1847142400 (electronic book)
0304705993 (hardback)
9780304705993 (hardback)
0304706000 (paperback)
9780304706006 (paperback)