| Contents | 6 |
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| Acknowledgements | 8 |
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| Introduction: Contained and Exposed Crises | 10 |
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| Crisis as a Privilege | 15 |
| Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts | 19 |
| Masculinity as an Interdependent Category | 26 |
| ‘Hegemonic’ and ‘Marginalised’ Masculinities | 29 |
| The Narratability of Masculinity and Narrative Patterns | 34 |
| 1. Colonial Masculinities: Gentlemen and Hunters, Hybrid ‘Sahibs’ and Failures | 42 |
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| Henry Rider Haggard: Nostalgic African Adventures | 51 |
| King Solomon’s Mines: “We are men, thou and I” | 54 |
| She: “Heat, misery, and mosquitoes” | 65 |
| Colonial Photography: The Spectacle of the ‘Self’ | 79 |
| Heroic Hunters | 88 |
| Establishing Order | 99 |
| Rudyard Kipling: The Ambivalence of Empire | 107 |
| Kim: An Orientalist Coming of Age | 109 |
| Joseph Conrad: Masculine Modernism | 122 |
| The Nigger of the “Narcissus”: Allegories of ‘Black’ Death and ‘White’ Camaraderie | 124 |
| Heart of Darkness: White Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | 137 |
| 2. Postcolonial Masculinities: Hybrid Men, Fanatics and Anti-Heroes | 155 |
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| Hanif Kureishi: New Ways of Being British | 159 |
| The Buddha of Suburbia: “A funny kind of Englishman” | 161 |
| The Black Album: Hybrid Crisis | 175 |
| Postcolonial Films: Queering the Imperial Gaze? | 187 |
| My Beautiful Laundrette: Coming-out ‘In-Between’ | 187 |
| The Crying Game: Male Femininity as a Spectacle | 200 |
| Zadie Smith: Hysterical Realism and Happy Multiculturalism? | 217 |
| White Teeth: Back to the Future | 218 |
| J.M. Coetzee: Postmodern Despair | 234 |
| Waiting for the Barbarians: Allegories of the Failure of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ | 236 |
| Disgrace: Male Author-ity in an Age of Disgrace? | 249 |
| Conclusion: Towards a Particularisation of the Crisis of Masculinity – En/Countering Post-9/11 Crisis Narratives of Uncertainty | 264 |
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| Abbreviations | 275 |
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| List of Illustrations | 276 |
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| Bibliography | 278 |
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| Index | 312 |
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