Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Locations of culture
  • 1. The commitment to theory
  • 2. Interrogating identity: Frantz Fanon and the postcolonial prerogative
  • 3. The other question: Stereotype, discrimination and the discourse of colonialism
  • 4. Of mimicry and man: The ambivalence of colonial discourse
  • 5. Sly civility
  • 6. Signs taken for wonders: Questions of ambivalence and authority under a tree outside Delhi, May 1817
  • 7. Articulating the archaic: Cultural difference and colonial nonsense
  • 8. DissemiNation: Time, narrative and the margins of the modern nation
  • 9. The postcolonial and the postmodern: The question of agency
  • 10. By bread alone: Signs of violence in the mid-nineteenth century
  • 11. How newness enters the world: Postmodern space, postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation
  • 12. Conclusion: 'Race', time and the revision of modernity
  • Notes, Index.