Part 1: "I"

1. The invention of the "I"

2. Of masquerades and masks: miming and alterity

3. The childless mother and motherless child, or the orphanhood of the white woman writer in Africa

Part 2: "Had a farm"

4. Stories of African farms and the politics of landscape

5. Culture, cultivation, and colonialism in Out of Africa and beyond

6. Violence and voluntarism: the will to power and the will to die

Part 3: "In Africa"

7. X-ing out Africa to produce something new

8. Graves with a view: atavism and the European history of Africa.