Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTE ON SPELLINGS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I -- 1 BODY/BORDER LINES -- HEALTH AND THE NATION -- THE GENDERED BODY -- THE COLONIAL BODY -- THE CULTURAL BODY -- 2 THE DOMINION OF SONS -- PASTORAL POLITICS -- AFRICA AS GARDEN? -- SOME VERSIONS OF THE PASTORAL -- GENDER AND GENRE -- THE ORIENTALIST GAZE -- A FANTASY OF WHITE BODIES AND BLACK BODIES -- CODA: PRIMITIVITY, GENDER AND THE NARRATIVE OF COLONIALISM -- 3 MIMESIS OF SAVAGERY -- REWRITING HISTORY -- Locations -- TEMPORAL POLITICS -- NATIVE AUTHORITY -- THE BODY POLITIC: THE GLAMOUR AND TRAGEDY OF THE ANGLO-ZULU WAR -- TRANSITIONS -- Part II -- 4 THE COLONIAL UNCANNY -- THE STRANGE RIDE OF MORROWBIE JUKES -- THE RETURN OF IMRAY -- (IN)HABITING THE BEAST -- CASTRATING MORALS -- NARRATIVE AUTHORITY AND CULTURAL IDENTITY -- Travels in another land -- Anglo (In)dian -- BATTLELINES: HISTORIES PAST AND PRESENT -- THE COLONIAL UNCANNY -- INNUMERABLE BODIES -- AT THE END OF THE PASSAGE -- 5 THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT -- THE COLONIAL CITY -- Purity -- Danger -- THE DECADENT CITY -- THE OTHER NATION -- Parliamentary democracy and the Native State -- On duty with Superintendent Lamb -- Racial hybridity -- 6 THE COLONIAL MIRROR -- THE MIRRORED BODY -- IDENTIFICATION AND THE RACIAL BODY -- BLACK MASKS -- WHITE SKINS -- GOING NATIVE: STRICKLAND AS SHERLOCK HOLMES -- RACIAL FETISHISM -- PSYCHIC VESTMENTS -- WRITING AS OTHER -- 7 LOAFERS AND STORY-TELLERS -- THE POLITICS OF LOAFERDOM -- AN ALLEGORY OF EMPIRE? -- TRANSFERENCE: PARABLE OR PARODY? -- THE GREAT GAME -- THE IMPERIAL STORY-TELLER -- OR THE ARTIST AS LOAFER? -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.