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.