Up Against the Archive

Antoinette Burton is Professor of History and Swanlund Endowed Chair at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author and editor of numerous books, including Africa in the Indian Imagination and Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire, both published by Duke University Press.

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: Form, Anticolonial Method, and Potential Histories / Antoinette Burton  1
Part I. Re-Storying Erasures
1. The Value of an Unflinching Gaze: Questions from a Women Whose Name We Cannot Know / Jennifer L. Morgan  21
2. Left on Red: Chickasaw Disengagement from British Empire in the Late-Eighteenth Century / Jenny L. Davis  39
3. Just the One: A Critically Fabulated Narrative of the Boy Presented Before the Royal Society of London, 1765 / Meleisa Ono-George  53
Part II. Listening to Traces
4. Colonialism, Chance, and Ocean Currents: Tracing the Life of Hawa Essop Patel (1905–1938) / Goolam Vahed  67
5. No Smoke Without Fire / Laura Ishiguro  89
6. Whispers and Murmurs: Indian Girls in Imperial Britain / Sumita Mukherjee  105
7. Pacific Relations: A Critical Fabulation in Five Letters / Ryan D. Fong  119
Part III. Splitting Seams
8. The Intimacies of Commerce: A Family Biography / Renisa Mawani  137
9. Fictions of Revolutionary Motherhood: Tatyana Moiseenko in Shanghai, 1930–1935 / Heather Salter  155
10. A Stowaway Life / Frances Steel  169
11. A Rusted Pin / Caroline Bressey  185
12. The Prayers of David Oluwale / Kennetta Hammond Perry  197
Bibliography  211
Contributors  223
Index