"The only efficient instrument" [[electronic resource] ] : American women writers & the periodical, 1837-1916 / / edited by Aleta Feinsod Cane & Susan Alves

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450813003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2001
• ISBN: 1-58729-400-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): CaneAleta Feinsod <1949->; AlvesSusan <1958->
• Disciplina: 810.9/9287/09034; 810.9928709034
• Soggetti: American literature - Women authors - History and criticism; Women and literature - United States - History - 19th century; 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; American periodicals - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-229) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: ""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.""