Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface to the second edition
Introduction
1. From ‘Commonwealth’ to ‘Postcolonial’
2. Reading colonial discourses
3. Nationalist representations
4. The nation in question
5. Re-reading and re-writing English literature
6. Postcolonialism and feminism
7. Diaspora identities
8. The limits of postcolonialism?
Appendix: ‘The Overland Mail (foot-service to the hills)’ (Rudyard Kipling)
Further reading
Index

About the Author

John McLeod is Reader in Postcolonial and Diaspora Literatures at the School of English, University of Leeds, UK