11. "A Nutmeg Nestled Inside Its Covering of Mace": Audre Lorde's Zami

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Positioning the Female Autobiographical Subject
7. 1. Positioning the Female Autobiographical Subject The Other Voice: Autobiographies of Women Writers 19
8. 2. Writing Fictions: Women's Autobiography in France 45
9. 3. Non-Autobiographies of "Privileged" Women: England and America 62
10. 4. Lesbian Identity and Autobiographical Difference[s] 77
11. Part II. Colonized Subjects and Subversive Discourses
12. 5. "Not Just a Personal Story": Women's Testimonios and the Plural Self 107
13. 6. In Other Words: Native American Women's Autobiography 131
14. 7. Between Two Worlds: The Formation of a Turn-of-the-Century Egyptian Feminist 154
15. 8. Race, Gender, and Cultural Context in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road 175
16. 9. Structures of Liberation: Female Experience and Autobiographical Form in Quebec 189
17. Part III. Double Messages: Maternal Legacies! Mythographies
18. 10. Revisions of Labor in Margaret Oliphant's Autobiography 203
19. 11. "A Nutmeg Nestled Inside Its Covering of Mace": Audre Lorde's Zami 221
20. 12. Mothers, Displacement, and Language in the Autobiographies of Nathalie Sarraute and Christa Wolf 243
21. 13. Métissage, Emancipation, and Female Textuality in Two Francophone Writers 260
22. Part IV. De-Limiting Genre: Other Autobiographical Acts
23. 14. All of a Piece: Women's Poetry and Autobiography 281
24. 15. Elisabeth to Meta: Epistolary Autobiography and the Postulation of the Self 306
25. 16. Taking Her Life/History: The Autobiography of Charlotte Salomon 320
26. 17. Seeing Subjects: Women Directors and Cinematic Autobiography 338
27. Contributors 351
28. Index 355