This interdisciplinary volume attempts to expand the temporal and geographic agenda of postcolonial studies.

Opposing the orthodoxies of establishment post colonialism, this work posits acts of resistance and subversion by people of colour as central to the unfolding d

With the backdrop of new global powers, this volume interrogates the state of writing in English. Strongly interdisciplinary, it challenges the prevailing ortho

Introduction -- Part I. Modern western knowledge under challenge -- Unsettling the modern knowledge settlement -- Defending reason : a postcolonial critique --

The contributors not only study state breakdown but compare the consequences of post-communism with those of post-colonialism.