Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-220) and index.

Machine generated contents note: I Autobiography and slavery: Believing the History of Mary Prince -- Black and white -- The 'history' of Mary Prince -- Marginalia: oppositional reading -- Mr Pringle: editor -- Miss Strickland: the 'other' woman -- Authorization: reading the body of the slave -- Volatile bodies -- The return of Mary Prince -- 2 Settler subjects -- Blood and milk: Roughing It in the Bush -- Colonizer and colonized -- Grosse Isle, summer 1832 -- Emigration in the time of cholera -- Conduct books: The Backwoods of Canada -- Autobiography and adjacency: Mr and Mrs Moodie -- Domesticity: the race made flesh -- 3 Travelling in memory of slavery -- Britannia's daughters -- Jamaica: the legacy of the plantation -- The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole -- Creole travelling -- Mary Gaunt: writing a master narrative -- The Buckra lady -- Romance and slavery -- 4 Kenya: The land that never was -- Finding Karen Blixen -- Quartet; Blixen, Simpson, Markham and Huxley -- Dystopian autobiography: The Land That Never Was -- Autobiography at Independence: :The flaine Trees of Thika -- Out of Africa: the biography of the white hunter -- The new pioneer: West with the Night -- Smoke and mirrors -- 5 Autobiography and resistance: -- Reading across the South -- Autobiography after Soweto -- Call Me Woman -- Black Australian autobiography -- Sally Morgan and Ruby Langfrd Ginibi: the making -- of Aboriginality -- Black writers/white readers -- Bodiless women -- 6 In memory of the colonial child -- Autobiography ad topia -- A Childhood Perceived: Penelope Lively -- Under My Skin: Doris Lessing -- Rhodesia: the lost world -- Accessing the pst -- Reading across the Straits -- Connected reading: the agency of the reader -- Select bibliography -- Index.