Johnson charts aspects of post-colonial experience in ordinary life at the colonial centre in Albert Angelo (1964), and he offers a critique of colonial language and its ideological processes in See the Old Lady Decently (1975). In both novels he seems attuned to recognising and critiquing the power and hegemony of the imperial/colonial narrative and its collapse, offering no trace of nostalgia for the lost bourgeois stability of imperialism that, to some degree, permeates even supposedly radical novelists touching upon similar contexts or cultural motifs, often marking the co-ordinates of a novelistic bourgeois self-identification both familiar and repulsive to Johnson. In Homi K. Bhabha's terms, expressed in The Location of Culture (1994), understanding post-coloniality means recognising hybridity as "intimations of exceeding the barrier or boundary — the very act of going beyond — are unknowable, unrepresentable, without a return to the "present" which, in the process of repetition, becomes disjunct and displaced" (4). This is a position reminiscent of Bhabha's sense of the interstices as "an expanded and ex-centric site of experience and empowerment" (4).