"Richards generates a tremendous amount of enthusiasm in her book. By catching the currents of postcolonial thought and cross-linking them with feminist literary criticism, she gives another boost to the scholarhsip in the field." -- Tuzyline Jita Allan, Baruch College, Woolf Studies Annual

• 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.