General Editors' Preface
Acknowledgements
General Introduction
Contexts： History， Politics， Culture
Introduction
Imperial and colonial periods and terms
Aboriginal/indigenous people
Anti-colonialism
Apartheid
Cannibal
Caribbean
Colonialism and imperialism
Commonwealth
Decolonisation
Diasporan writers
Difference and dialogue
Discourse
Fanon， Frantz （1925-61）
Independence
Land rights
Nation and nationalism
Neocolonialism
Pan-Africanism
Postcolonial discourse
Postcolonialism and feminism
Resistance
Rewriting history
Settler societies
SS Empire Windrush
Terra Nullius
Tricontinentalism
2 Texts： Themes， Issues， Concepts
Introduction
Aboriginal literature
Aboriginal writing： testimony， tale-telling and women's experience
Anti-apartheid political writing
Challenges to empire
Colonial status and cultural inequalities
Cultural change
Diaspora
Forms of writing - identity and subjectivity
Gender and convention： African women's novels
Language， discourse， culture and power： reclaiming/rewriting language and power
Literature and politics
Mother Africa， Mother India， motherhood， mothering
Myths of adapting and replaying
Nation language
Nationhood and women's equality
New literatures in English
New views of indigenous people - questioning the record
Oral-based literature， oral literature
Patriarchy and colonised women
Performance poetry
Postcolonial Gothic
Postcolonialism and feminism
Postcolonial settler writing
Recuperating and rewriting history
Semi-fictionalised autobiography
The last outpost of colonisation： rewriting the coloniser's homeland， from the inside
3 Criticism： Approaches， Theory， Practice
Introduction
Some of the major issues
Carnival
Colonial discourse
Commonwealth literature
Cosmopolitanism
Critical issues： location and difference
Essentialism
Fanon， Frantz （1925-61）
Global citizenship and cosmopolitanism
Hobson， John A． （1858-1940）
Hybridity
Mimicry
Nation language
Negritude
Postcolonial Gothic
Postcolonial theory
Said， Edward （1935-2003） and Orientalism
Speaking about or for Others
Spivak， Gayatri Chakravorty （1942-）
Chronology
References
General Index
Index of Works Cited