General Editors' Preface Acknowledgements General IntroductionContexts: History, Politics, CultureIntroductionImperial and colonial periods and termsAboriginal/indigenous peopleAnti-colonialismApartheidCannibalCaribbeanColonialism and imperialismCommonwealthDecolonisationDiasporan writersDifference and dialogueDiscourseFanon, Frantz (1925-61)IndependenceLand rightsNation and nationalismNeocolonialismPan-AfricanismPostcolonial discoursePostcolonialism and feminismResistanceRewriting historySettler societiesSS Empire WindrushTerra NulliusTricontinentalism 2 Texts: Themes, Issues, ConceptsIntroductionAboriginal literatureAboriginal writing: testimony, tale-telling and women's experienceAnti-apartheid political writingChallenges to empireColonial status and cultural inequalitiesCultural changeDiasporaForms of writing - identity and subjectivityGender and convention: African women's novelsLanguage, discourse, culture and power: reclaiming/rewriting language and powerLiterature and politicsMother Africa, Mother India, motherhood, motheringMyths of adapting and replayingNation languageNationhood and women's equalityNew literatures in EnglishNew views of indigenous people - questioning the recordOral-based literature, oral literaturePatriarchy and colonised womenPerformance poetryPostcolonial GothicPostcolonialism and feminismPostcolonial settler writingRecuperating and rewriting historySemi-fictionalised autobiographyThe last outpost of colonisation: rewriting the coloniser's homeland, from the inside 3 Criticism: Approaches, Theory, PracticeIntroductionSome of the major issuesCarnivalColonial discourseCommonwealth literatureCosmopolitanismCritical issues: location and differenceEssentialismFanon, Frantz (1925-61)Global citizenship and cosmopolitanismHobson, John A. (1858-1940)HybridityMimicryNation languageNegritudePostcolonial GothicPostcolonial theorySaid, Edward (1935-2003) and OrientalismSpeaking about or for OthersSpivak, Gayatri Chakravorty (1942-) Chronology References General Index Index of Works Cited