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"The only efficient instrument" : American women writers & the periodical, 1837-1916 / edited by Aleta Feinsod Cane & Susan Alves.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Journalism--United States--History.
- Journalism.
- American periodicals--History.
- American periodicals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""The Only Efficient Instrument"" examines farsighted women writers in nineteenth-century America whose pioneering use of newspapers and magazines had a vital impact on the political and intellectual communities of their day.""
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Part 1 Gender, Voice, and Self-Representation
- 1 Testing and Testifying: The Hart Sisters
- 2 The Heartbeat of a West Indian Slave:
- The History of Mary Prince
- 3 The Enigma of Arrival: Wonderful
- Adventures of Mrs. Seacole
- Part 2 The Estranging Sea 73
- 4 "The Traveling Ulysses Scene":
- Claude McKay's A Long Way from Home
- and My Green Hills of Jamaica
- 5 Blurred Genres, Blended Voices:
- George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin
- 6 Autobiographical Frameworks and
- Linked Discourses: George Lamming's
- The Pleasures of Exile and C. L. R. James's
- Beyond a Boundary
- 7 Poetic Autobiography: Derek Walcott's
- Another Life
- Part 3 Birthrights and Legacies
- 8 Fragments of Epic Memory: V. S. Naipaul's
- Finding the Center and A Way in the World
- 9 Maternal Bonds: My Mother's Daughter:
- The Autobiography of Anna Mahase., Snr.,
- 1899-1978
- 10 Colonist and Creole: Yseult Bridges's Child
- of the Tropics and Jean Rhys's Smile Please
- Part 4 Autobiography, Elegy, and
- Gender Identification 227
- 11 Beyond Consolation: Kamau Brathwaite's
- The Zea Mexican Diary
- 12 Death and Sexuality: Jamaica Kincaid's
- My Brother.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-229) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781587294006
- 1587294001
- OCLC:
- 56109517
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