Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ch. 1. Commitment to theory
  • ch. 2. Interrogating identity: Frantz Fanon and the postcolonial prerogative
  • ch. 3. Other question: stereotype, discrimination and the discourse of colonialism
  • ch. 4. Of mimicry and man: the ambivalence of colonial discourse
  • ch. 5. Sly civility
  • ch. 6. Signs taken for wonders: questions of ambivalence and authority under a tree outside Delhi, May 1817
  • ch. 7. Articulating the archaic: cultural difference and colonial nonsense
  • ch. 8. Dissemination: time, narrative and the margins of the modern nation
  • ch. 9. Postcolonial and the postmodern: the question of agency
  • ch. 10. By bread alone: signs of violence in the mid-nineteenth century
  • ch. 11. How newness enters the world: postmodern space, postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation
  • ch. 12. Conclusion: 'Race', time and the revision of modernity.