Beschreibung:
Introduction: postcolonialism and the angel of progress -- The lay of the land: genealogies of imperialism -- 'Massa' and maids: power and desire in the imperial metropolis -- Imperial leather: race, cross-dressing and the cult of domesticity -- Psychoanalysis, race and female fetishism -- Soft-soaping empire: commodity racism and imperial advertising -- The white family of man: colonial discourse and the reinvention of patriarchy -- Olive Schreiner: the limits of colonial feminism -- The scandal of hybridity: Black women's resistance and narrative ambiguity -- 'Azikwelwa' (we will not ride): cultural resistance in the desperate decades -- No longer in a future heaven: nationalism, gender and race -- Postscript: the angel of progress