Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Tale of the city: the imperial metropolis of Heart of Darkness -- 2 Gendering imperialism: Anne McClintock and H. Rider Haggard -- 3 Empire's culture in Fredric Jameson, Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak -- 4 Journeying to death: Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic -- 5 Black Atlantic nationalism: Sol Plaatje and W.E.B.Du Bois -- 6 Transnational productions of Englishness: South Africa in the post-imperial metropole -- 7 Theorising race, racism and culture: David Lloyd's work -- 8 Robert Young and the ironic authority of postcolonial criticism -- 9 Cultural studies in the new South Africa -- 10 'The Killer That Doesn't Pay Back': Chinua Achebe's critique of cosmopolitics -- 11 You can get there from here: critique and utopia in Benita Parry's thought -- Bibliography -- Index.