From the Margins of EmpireSituated at the intersection of the colonial and the postcolonial, the modern and the postmodern, the novelists Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, and Nadine Gordimer all bear witness to this century's global transformations. From the Margins of Empire looks at how the question of national identity is constructed in their writings. These authorswhite women who were born or grew up in British colonies or former coloniesreflect the subject of national