Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1992.

xxxi, 484 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

De/colonization and the politics of discourse in women's autobiographical practices / Julia Watson and Sidonie Smith -- Collaboration and the ordering imperative in life story production / Carole Boyce Davies -- "What I'm talking about when I'm talking about my baskets" : conversations with Mabel McKay / Greg Sarris -- "Rubbing a paragraph with a soft cloth"? : muted voices and editorial constraints in Dust tracks on a road / Claudine Raynaud -- A politics of experience : Leila Khaled's My people shall live : the autobiography of a revolutionary / Janet Varner Gunn -- The problem of being "Indian" : one mixed-blood's dilemma / Janice Gould -- The margin at the center : on testimonio (testimonial narrative) / John Beverley -- Resisting autobiography : out-law genres and transnational feminist subjects / Caren Kaplan.

Unspeakable differences : the politics of gender in lesbian and heterosexual women's autobiographies / Julia Watson -- "I yam what I yam" : cooking, culture, and colonialism / Anne Goldman -- Subversive-subaltern identity : Indira Gandhi as the speaking subject / Gita Rajan -- The changing moral discourse of nineteenth-century African American women's autobiography : Harriet Jacobs and Elizabeth Keckley / William L. Andrews -- Rosario Castellanos : "ashes without a face" / Debra A. Castillo -- Expressing feminism and nationalism in autobiography : the memoirs of an Egyptian educator / Margot Badran -- The subject of memoirs : The woman warrior's technology of ideographic selfhood / Lee Quinby -- Of mangoes and maroons : language, history, and the multicultural subject of Michelle Cliff's Abeng / Françoise Lionnet -- Terms of empowerment in Kamala Das's My story / Shirley Geok-lin Lim.

Autobiographical storytelling by Australian Aboriginal women / Kateryna Olijnyk Longley -- Disembodied subjects : English women's autobiography under the raj / Nancy L. Paxton -- The other woman and the racial politics of gender : Isak Dinesen and Beryle Markham in Kenya / Sidonie Smith -- Writing the subject : exoticism/eroticism in Marguerite Duras's The lover and The sea wall / Suzanne Chester.

Women's studies -- Biographical methods.

Autobiography -- Women authors.

Smith, Sidonie, editor.

Watson, Julia, 1945- editor.

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