
The Intimate Empire
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- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: In the pink: Empire and autobiography
- 1 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 Flame 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 Langford Ginibi: the making of Aboriginality
- Black writers/white readers
- Bodiless women
- 6 In memory of the colonial child
- Autobiography and utopia
- A Childhood Perceived: Penelope Lively
- Under My Skin: Doris Lessing
- Rhodesia: the lost world
- Accessing the past
- Reading across the Straits
- Connected reading: the agency of the reader
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- C
- D
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- F
- G
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