Containing essays and interviews with writers, this book interrogates the contemporary usage of the term and the category of the post-colonial as a theoretical concept, discourse and state of mind. Looking at contemporary writing in English, it revisions the practice of post-colonial studies and calls attention to its significant weaknesses.

This book of new critical essays and interviews with writers interrogates the current usage of the term and the category of the post-colonial as a theoretical concept, discourse and state of mind. By looking at contemporary writing in English throughout the world, it critically revisions the current practice of post-colonial studies and calls attention to its significant weaknesses.