De/Colonizing the Subject: Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography

Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: De/Colonization and the Politics of Discourse in Women’s Autobiographical Practices • Julia Watson and Sidonie Smith
Part 1: Autobiographical Identities and Cultural Interventions
	1 Collaboration and the Ordering Imperative in Life Story Production • Carole Boyce Davies
	2 “What I’m Talking about When I’m Talking about My Baskets”: Conversations with Mabel McKay • Greg Sarris
	3 “Rubbing a Paragraph with a Soft Cloth”? Muted Voices and Editorial Constraints in Dust Tracks on a Road • Claudine Raynaud
	4 A Politics of Experience: Leila Khaled’s My People Shall Live: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary • Janet Varner Gunn
	5 The Problem of Being “Indian”: One Mixed-Blood’s Dilemma • Janice Gould
Part 2: Theorizing the Politics of Form
	6 The Margin at the Center: On Testimonio (Testimonial Narrative) • John Beverley
	7 Resisting Autobiography: Out-Law Genres and Transnational Feminist Subjects • Caren Kaplan
	8 Unspeakable Differences: The Politics of Gender in Lesbian and Heterosexual Women’s Autobiographies • Julia Watson
	9 “I Yam What I Yam”: Cooking, Culture, and Colonialism • Anne Goldman
	10 Subversive-Subaltern Identity: Indira Gandhi as the Speaking Subject • Gita Rajan
Part 3: Negotiating Class and Race
	11 The Changing Moral Discourse of Nineteenth-Century African American Women’s Autobiography: Harriet Jacobs and Elizabeth Keckley • William L. Andrews
	12 Rosario Castellanos: “Ashes without a Face” • Debra A. Castillo
	13 Expressing Feminism and Nationalism in Autobiography: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Educator • Margot Badran
Part 4: The Counterhegemonic “I”
	14 The Subject of Memoirs: The Woman Warrior’s Technology of Ideographic Selfhood • Lee Quinby
	15 Of Mangoes and Maroons: Language, History, and the Multicultural Subject of Michelle Cliffs Abeng • Françoise Lionnet
	16 Terms of Empowerment in Kamala Das’s My Story • Shirley Geok-lin Lim
	17 Autobiographical Storytelling by Australian Aboriginal Women • Kateryna Olijnyk Longley
Part 5: The Body and the Colonizer
	18 Disembodied Subjects: English Women’s Autobiography under the Raj • Nancy L. Paxton
	19 The Other Woman and the Racial Politics of Gender: Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham in Kenya • Sidonie Smith
	20 Writing the Subject: Exoticism/Eroticism in Marguerite Duras’s The Lover and The Sea Wall • Suzanne Chester
Contributors
Index