Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: From the Margins of Empire 1
5. Part I: Christina Stead: Buffoon Odyssey?
6. 1. Unsettling Australia: The Man Who Loved Children as National Family Romance 17
7. 2. "Buffoon Odyssey"?: For Love Alone and the Writing of Exile 38
8. Part II. Doris Lessing: In Pursuit of the English
9. 3. The Englishing of Doris Lessing 57
10. 4. 'Integrated with British Life at Its Roots": The Construction of British Identity in The Golden Notebook 71
11. 5. Reading Doris Lessing with Margaret Thatcher: The Good Terrorist, The Fifth Child, and England in the 1980s 91
12. Part III. Nadine Gordimer: Literature and Politics in South Africa
13. 6. European Genealogies and South African Identity in Burger's Daughter 111
14. 7. Decolonizing the Novel: A Sport of Nature as Postcolonial Picaresque 132
15. 8. Beyond Identity: The Poetics of Nonracialism and the Politics of Cultural Translation in My Son's Story 150
16. Conclusion: Writing beyond the Margins 170
17. Works Cited 175
18. Index 193