Introduction: Infrastructure, resistance, literature -- Mapping humanitarianism: Flora Annie Steel and the contradictions of colonial capitalism -- Mapping segregation: literary geographies of South Africa -- Mapping frontiers: John Buchan and the topographies of imperial ideolo…
Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the period of 'late colonial shift' after 1945. Rather than view decolonization as an inevitable process, the contributors toge…
