Gillian Whitlock. The Intimate Empi...

Gillian Whitlock. The Intimate Empire: Reading Women's Autobiography.

London: Cassell, 2000 256 pp ISBN 0-304-70600-0 $2695

In this commendable, broad canvas of colonial and postcolonial women's autobiography, Gillian Whitlock invites the reader to participate in a "proces of lead into each othered reading" (203), which consists of "a search for contiguities" and "rogue connections" (204) Consequently subjects are brought together in ways which transgress the boundaries of national canons, inflection for sex and periodization. Such an approach could easily lead