Acknowledgments
Introduction: Life-Writing and Subversion
1. Autobiography, Authorship, and Authority
2. Black Women Autobiographers’ Encounter with Gender, Race, and Class
3. A Patchwork of Cultures: Journeys of African American Women Autobiographers
4. The Emergence of an African American Mother Tongue
5. Subtle Resistance in Our Nig, Incidents, Behind the Scenes, and Reminiscences
6. Allusion as Hidden Discourse in Black Women’s Autobiography
7. Flagrant Resistance, and Punishment Be Damned
8. Linkages: Continuation of a Tradition
Afterword: Piecing It All Together
Notes
Bibliography
Index