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 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.