Includes bibliographical references (p. [541]-575) and index.

pt. 1. ISSUES AND DEBATES -- 1. The occasion for speaking / George Lamming -- 2. The economy of Manichean allegory / Abdul R. JanMohamed -- 3. Orientalism / Edward W. Said -- 4. Can the subaltern speak? / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- 5. Signs taken for wonders / Homi K. Bhabha -- 6. Problems in current theories of colonial discourse / Benita Parry -- 7. The scramble for post-colonialism / Stephen Slemon -- 8. Colonialism and culture / Nicholas B. Dirks -- 9. The nature of things : arrested decolonization and critical theory / Biodun Jeyifo -- 10. The intimacy of tyranny / Achille Mbembe -- pt. 2. UNIVERSALITY AND DIFFERENCE -- 11. Colonialist criticism / Chinua Achebe -- 12. Heroic ethnocentrism : the idea of universality in literature / Charles Larson -- 13. Western mathematics : the secret weapon of cultural imperialism / Alan J. Bishop -- 14. Jamison's rhetoric of otherness and the 'national allegory' / Aijaz Ahmad -- 15. The critique of eurocentrism / Tsenay Serequeberhan -- pt. 3. REPRESENTATION AND RESISTANCE -- 16. Resistance, opposition and representation / Edward W. Said -- 17. Post-colonial literatures and counter-discourse / Helen Tiffin -- 18. Unsettling the empire : resistance theory for the second world / Stephen Slemon -- 19. The rhetoric of English India / Sara Suleri -- 20. Colonialism, racism and representation / Robert Stam and Louise Spence -- 21. Networks of resistance / Elleke Boehmer -- pt. 4. NATIONALISM -- 22. National culture / Frantz Fanon -- 23. Imagined communities / Benedict Anderson -- 24. Nationalism as a problem / Partha Chatterjee -- 25. The national longing for form / Timothy Brennan -- 26. Dissemination : time, narrative, and the margins of the modern nation / Homi K. Bhabha -- 27. What ish my nation? / David Cairns and Shaun Richards -- pt. 5. HYBRIDITY -- 28. Fossil and psyche / Kirsten Holst Petersen and Anna Rutherford -- 29. Named for Victoria, Queen of England / Chinua Achebe -- 30. Of the marvellous realism of the Haitians / Jacques Stephen Aléxis -- 31. Marvellous realism : the way out of négritude / Michael Dash -- 32. Creolization in Jamaica / Edward Kamau Brathwaite -- 33. Cultural diversity and cultural differences / Homi K. Bhabha -- 34. The cultural politics of hybridity / Robert Young -- pt. 6. INDIGENEITY -- 35. The myth of authenticity / Gareth Griffiths -- 36. Who can write as other? / Margery fee -- 37. The representation of the indigene / Terry Goldie -- 38. Postcolonialism, ideology, and Native American literature / Arnold Krupat -- 39. Indigenous articulations / James Clifford -- 40. The white Inuit speaks : contamination as literary strategy / Diana Brydon -- pt. 7. AUTHENTICITY -- 41. Who is ethnic? / Werner Sollors -- 42. Identifying identity / Philip Gleason -- 43. No master territories / Trinh T. Minh-ha -- 44. New ethnicities / Stuart Hall -- 45. After whiteness / Mike Hill -- 46. Towards a new consciousness / Gloria Anzaldúa -- pt. 8. RACE -- 47. Race and racism / Tzvetan Todorov -- 48. Writing race / Henry Louis Gates -- 49. Race, time and the revision of modernity / Homi K. Bhabha -- 50. The illusions of race / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- 51. There ain't no black in the union jack / Paul Gilroy -- 52. Négritude and nativism / Pal Ahluwalia -- pt. 9. FEMINISM -- 53. First things first : problems of a feminist approach to African literature / Kirsten Holst Petersen -- 54. Decolonizing culture : toward a theory for postcolonial women's texts / Ketu H. Katrak -- 55. Under Western eyes : feminist scholarship and colonial discourses / Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- 56. Writing postcoloniality and feminism / Trinh T. Minh-ha -- 57. Woman skin deep : feminism and the postcolonial condition / Sara Suleri -- 58. Colonizing bodies and minds / Oyèrónké Oyewùmí -- pt. 10. LANGUAGE -- 59. The language of African literature / Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o -- 60. The politics of language / Chinua Achebe -- 61. The alchemy of English / Braj B. Kachru -- 62. Language and spirit / Raja Rao -- 63. Language and transformation / Bill Ashcroft -- 64. Nation language / Edward Kamau Brathwaite -- 65. Reflexification / Chantal Zabus -- pt. 11. THE BODY AND PERFORMANCE -- 66. The fact of blackness / Frantz Fanon -- 67. In search of the lost body : redefining the subject in Caribbean literature / Michael Dash -- 68. The body as cultural signifier / Russell McDougall -- 69. Dance, movement and resistance politics / Helen Gilbert -- 70. Outlaws of the text / Gillian Whitlock -- 71. Resistant performance / Marvin Carlson -- 72. On veiling, vision and voyage / Reina Lewis -- pt. 12. HISTORY -- 73. Allegories of 'Atlas' / José Rabasa -- 74. Columbus and the cannibals / Peter Hulme -- 75. The muse of history / Derek Walcott -- 76. Spatial history / Paul Carter -- 77. The limbo gateway / Wilson Harris -- 78. Postcoloniality and the artifice of history / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- pt. 13. PLACE -- 79. Writing in colonial space / Dennis Lee -- 80. Naming place / Paul Carter -- 81. Decolonizing the map / Graham Huggan -- 82. Aboriginal place / Bob Hodge and Vijay Mishra -- 83. Indigenous map making / G. Malcolm Lewis -- 84. The other side of the mountain / Walter Mignolo -- pt. 14. EDUCATION -- 85. Minute on Indian education / Thomas Macaulay -- 86. The beginnings of English literary study in British India / Gauri Viswanathan -- 87. Education and neocolonialism / Philip G. Altbach -- 88. Ideology in the classroom : a case study in the teaching of English literature in Canadian universities / Arun P. Mukherjee -- 89. Borders and bridges / Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o -- 90. Entrenching English in Trinidad and Tobago / Norrel A. London -- pt. 15. PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION -- 91. The historiography of African literature written in English / André Lefevre -- 92. The book today in Africa / S.I.A. Kotei -- 93. Literary colonialism : books in the third world / Philip G. Altbach -- 94. Soft-soaping empire / Anne McClintock -- 95. Commodities and the politics of value / Arjun Appadurai -- 96. The postcolonial exotic / Graham Huggan -- pt. 16. DIASPORA -- 97. Imagining homelands / Salman Rushdie -- 98. Cultural identity and diaspora / Stuart Hall -- 99. The mind of winter / Edward W. Said -- 100. Thinking through the concept of diaspora / Avtah Brah -- 101. The diasporic imaginary : theorizing the Indian diaspora / Vijay Mishra -- 102. Diasporas / James Clifford -- 103. Passport photos / Amitava Kumar -- pt. 17. GLOBALIZATION -- 104. The global in the local / Arif Dirlik -- 105. Disjunction and difference / Arjun Appadurai -- 106. Globalization and the claims of postcoloniality / Simon Gikandi -- 107. Glocalization / Roland Robertson -- 108. Imperial sovereignty / Guy Hardt and Antonio Negri -- 109. Feminist solidarity through anticapitalist struggles / Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- pt. 18. ENVIRONMENT -- 110. Ecological imperialism / Alfred W. Crosby -- 111. Green imperialism / Richard Grove -- 112. Trial statement / Ken Saro-Wiwa -- 113. Decolonizing relationships with nature / Val Plumwood -- 114. The beaver as native and as colonist / Gordon Sayre -- 115. Old orders for new / Cary Wolfe -- pt. 19. THE SACRED -- 116. Conversion, 'tradition' and national consolidation / Gauri Viswanathan -- 117. God, gold, and gender / Laura E. Donaldson -- 118. Reclaiming our histories / William Baldridge -- 119. Orientalism and religion / Richard King -- 120. Global conversions / Peter Van der Veer -- 121. Postcolonializing biblical interpretation / R.S. Sugirtharajah.