Introduction
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
CHAPTER 1 Toward a Transnational Feminist Writing and Reading Practice
Decolonizing Empire: Approaches to Postcolonial Studies
Decolonizing Literature: Canons and Countercanons
When It Rains It Pours: Women of The Tempest
Transnational Feminism and Anticolonial Reading
Intervention and Invention as Transnational Feminist Practice
CHAPTER 2 Virginia Woolf: A Critique from the Center of Empire
"[T]he things people don't say": Silence as a Critique of Empire in The Voyage Out
Parody and the Critique of the Colonial Project: Between the Acts
Comic Colonials and Complicit Intellectuals
CHAPTER 3 Transnational Feminist Reading: The Case of Cape Town
...like living on shifting sands": Protest Literature in South Africa
Troubling Racial Hegemony: "Post"
Protest Literature
A Novel for a New South Africa
CHAPTER 4 Exoticism to Transnational Feminism: Alice Walker
Africa and Walker's Literary Imagination
The Color Purple
The Temple of My Familiar
Possessing The Secret of Joy
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.