Frontmatter and Editorial

In lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the editorial: With target essays focusing on a wide range of issues from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century colonial historical documents to the discourse of masochism in Austrian nineteenth-century novellas as well as to recent postcolonial American historiographic metafiction, Rac(e)ing Questions II investigates interactions of gender and race in the (post)colonial from interdisciplinary perspectives. It thus continues the examination of gender- and race-biased power relations of Rac(e)ing Questions I in an endeavour to provide a broadened insight into contemporary theoretical approaches to questions of gender and racial difference.