De-Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography

Abeng Aboriginal Adrienne Rich African African American American argues auto autobiography become biography body Cabeza Castellanos Chinese Cliff colonial context critics critique cultural Das's Dillard's Dinesen discourse dominant editor English essay experience female feminism feminist fiction Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak gender girl heterosexual Hurston Ibid identity ideology Indian Indira Gandhi Isak Dinesen Kamala Das Keckley Kingston language Leila Khaled lesbian literary literature living Lover Mabel male margins Markham memoirs mother Musa Musa's narrative narrator native novel numbers oppression oral out-law patriarchal political position postcolonial published race racial reader recipes relationship representation represents resistance Rigoberta Menchú Rosario Castellanos sense sexual silence slave slave narratives social society speak Spivak story strategies struggle subaltern tell testimonio textual theory traditional trans Tytler University Press unspeakable voice Western Woman Warrior women Women's Autobiography writing York Zora Neale Hurston