Introduction: Postcolonialism and the Angel of Progress -- 1. Empire of the Home. 1. The Lay of the Land: Genealogies of Imperialism. 2. "Massa" and Maids: Power and Desire in the Imperial Metropolis. 3. Imperial Leather: Race, Cross-dressing and the Cult of Domesticity. 4. Psychoanalysis, Race and Female Fetishism -- 2. Double Crossings. 5. Soft-Soaping Empire: Commodity Racism and Imperial Advertising. 6. The White Family of Man: Colonial Discourse and the Reinvention of Patriarchy. 7. Oliver Schreiner: The Limits of Colonial Feminism -- 3. Dismantling the Master's House. 8. The Scandal of Hybridity: Black Women's Resistance and Narrative Ambiguity. 9. "Azikwelwa" (We Will Not Ride): Cultural Resistance in the Desperate Decades. 10. No Longer in a Future Heaven: Nationalism, Gender and Race -- Postscript: The Angel of Progress
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