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Chapter 5, entitled 'Autobiography and Resistance', contains sections on Aboriginal Australian women's autobiography (see especially pp. 154-165).

Includes select bibliography and index.

Contents :

• 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 Langfrd 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