03863nam 2200697Ia 450 991080773270332120240516103840.01-58729-400-1(CKB)1000000000447491(EBL)837090(OCoLC)56109517(SSID)ssj0000215124(PQKBManifestationID)11166445(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000215124(PQKBWorkID)10183965(PQKB)10480521(MiAaPQ)EBC837090(MdBmJHUP)muse12511(Au-PeEL)EBL837090(CaPaEBR)ebr10354665(EXLCZ)99100000000044749120010511d2001 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccr"The only efficient instrument" American women writers & the periodical, 1837-1916 /edited by Aleta Feinsod Cane & Susan Alves1st ed.Iowa City University of Iowa Pressc20011 online resource (257 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87745-780-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-229) and index.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.""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.""American literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismWomen and literatureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryWomen and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican literature19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismJournalismUnited StatesHistoryAmerican periodicalsHistoryAmerican literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Women and literatureHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.JournalismHistory.American periodicalsHistory.810.9/9287/09034810.9928709034Cane Aleta Feinsod1949-1689468Alves Susan1958-1689469MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807732703321"The only efficient instrument"4064562UNINA