Decolonizing the Subject: Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: De/Colonization and the Politics of Discourse in Women's Autobiographical Practices
Part 1 Autobiographical Identities and Cultural Interventions
	Chapter 1 Collaboration and the Ordering Imperative in Life Story Production
	Chapter 2 "What I'm Talking about When I'm Talking about My Baskets" Conversations with Mabel McKay
	Chapter 3 "Rubbing a Paragraph with a Soft Cloth"? Muted Voices and Editorial Constraints in Dust Tracks on a Road
	Chapter 4 A Politics of Experience: Leila Khaled's My People Shall Live: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary
	Chapter 5 The Problem of Being "Indian": One Mixed-Blood's Dilemma
Part 2 Theorizing the Politics of Form
	Chapter 6 The Margin at the Center: On Testimonio (Testimonial Narrative)
	Chapter 7 Resisting Autobiography: Out-Law Genres and Transnational Feminist Subjects
	Chapter 8 Unspeakable Differences: The Politics of Gender in Lesbian and Heterosexual Women's Autobiographies
	Chapter 9 "I Yam What I Yam": Cooking, Culture, and Colonialism
	Chapter 10 Subversive-Subaltern Identity: Indira Gandhi as the Speaking Subject
Part 3 Negotiating Class and Race
	Chapter 11 The Changing Moral Discourse of Nineteenth-Century African American Women's Autobiography: Harriet Jacobs and Elizabeth Keckley
	Chapter 12 Rosario Castellanos: "Ashes without a Face"
	Chapter 13 Expressing Feminism and Nationalism in Autobiography: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Educator
Part 4 The Counterhegemonic "I"
	Chapter 14 The Subject of Memoirs: The Woman Warrior's Technology of Ideographic Selfhood
	Chapter 15 Of Mangoes and Maroons: Language, History, and the Multicultural Subject of Michelle Cliffs Abeng
	Chapter 16 Terms of Empowerment in Kamala Das's My Story
	Chapter 17 Autobiographical Storytelling by Australian Aboriginal Women
Part 5 The Body and the Colonizer
	Chapter 18 Disembodied Subjects: English Women's Autobiography under the Raj
	Chapter 19 The Other Woman and the Racial Politics of Gender: Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham in Kenya
	Chapter 20 Writing the Subject: Exoticism/Eroticism in Marguerite Duras's: The Lover and The Sea Wall
Contributors
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