Introduction ; I. Ideologies of imperialism. The letter of Christopher Columbus on the discovery of America / Christopher Columbus ; Speech in the impeachment of Warren Hastings / Edmund Burke ; The value of British rule in the tropics to British democracy and the native races / Frederick Lugard --
II. The critique of colonial discourse. Romanus Pontifex (1454) and the expansion of Europe / Valentin Y. Mudimbe ; from Discourse on colonialism / Aimé Césaire ; Caliban : notes towards a discussion of culture in our America / Roberto Fernández Retamar ; Introduction to Orientalism / Edward W. Said ; Imperialism, history, writing and theory / Linda Tuhiwai Smith --
III. The politics of language and literary studies. Minute on Indian education, February 2, 1835 / Thomas Babington Macaulay ; The English language in Liberia / Alexander Crummell ; The language of African literature / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o ; Writing oral history : Sistren Theatre Collective's Lionheart gal / Carolyn Cooper --
IV. Nationalisms and nativisms. Negritude : a humanism of the twentieth century / Léopold Sédar Senghor ; The African novel and its critics (1950-1975) / Chinweizu, Onwuchekwa Jemie, and Ihechukwu Madubuike ; On national culture / Frantz Fanon ; The tyrannies of unanimism / Paul Gilroy --
V. Hybrid identities. The threat of abandonment / Octave Mannoni ; The Caribbean : culture or mimicry? / Derek Walcott ; Of mimicry and man : the ambivalence of colonial discourse / Homi Bhabha ; In praise of Creoleness / Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant ; How (!) is an Indian? : a contest of stories / Jana Sequoya --
VI. Genders and sexualities. The discourse of the veil / Leila Ahmed ; Colonizing bodies and minds : gender and colonialism / Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí ; Three women's texts and a critique of imperialism / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ; 'Bullers' and 'battymen' : contesting homophobia in black popular culture and contemporary Caribbean literature / Timothy S. Chin --
VII. Reading the subaltern. On some aspects of the historiography of colonial India / Ranajit Guha ; Outside history : Irish new histories and the 'subalternity effect' / David Lloyd ; Our Rigoberta? I, Rigoberta Menchú, cultural authority, and the problem of subaltern agency / John Beverley ; The primitivist and the postcolonial / Nicholas Thomas --
VIII. Comparative (post)colonialisms. Apology Bill : Public Law 103-150 / U.S. Congress ; Manifest domesticity / Amy Kaplan ; When does a settler become a native? : citizenship and identity in a settler society / Pal Ahluwalia ; Is the post- in postcolonial the post- in post-Soviet? : toward a global postcolonial critique / David Chioni Moore --
IX. Globalization and postcoloniality. Thinking the diaspora : home-thoughts from abroad / Stuart Hall ; The postcolonial aura : Third World criticism in the age of global capitalism / Arif Dirlik ; Against the lures of diaspora : minority discourse, Chinese women, and intellectual hegemony / Rey Chow ; Globalization and the claims of postcoloniality / Simon Gikandi --
Alternative arrangements for Postcolonialisms.

Bringing together thirty-seven essays that have helped define the study of colonial and postcolonial cultures, this expansive and thoughtfully organised anthology offers an up-to-date and in-depth overview of this rapidly developing field. Canonical articles explore postcolonialism's key themes, while articles by contemporary scholars expand the discipline