An examination of the diverse responses of writers to the colonialism, tradition, urbanisation and identity. Index, bib, apps, xix, 353pp, USA. STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS.

Second edition. An accessible introduction to the historical dimensions and theoretical concepts associated with colonial and postcolonial discourse. Bib, index, 263pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

Second edition. Examines the development of colonial literature from the Victorian era to the postcolonial literature of the later 20th century. Discusses the work of Franz Fanon, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Ayi Kwei Armah, and Wole Soyinka as well as work by authors from Asia, the Caribbean, Canada and Britain. Includes a guide for further reading and a chronology of key events. Index, bib, notes, maps, 351pp, UK. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Drawing on memoirs, fiction, reportage and film adaptations, the author explores the critical perspectives of writers who correct prevailing stereotypes of British women as agents of imperialism and those who take centre stage in debates about connections between the racist ideologies of the Third Reich and the British Empire. Writers discussed include Elspeth Huxley, Zadie Smith, Muriel Spark and Olivia Manning. Index, refs, notes, viii, 241pp, USA. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 0813534178

Examines the rapid rise and growth of modern literature in the three postcolonial nations of Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia. It tracks the multiple political and economic pressures that have shaped these literatures since 1945 and reveals its authors' heroic efforts to keep their literary traditions alive in the face of extreme poverty and AIDS. It pays particular attention to the nature of British colonialism, especially theories regarding its provenance and motivation, discussing such historical figures as David Livingstone, Cecil Rhodes, and Sir Harry Johnston, as well as modern power players, including Robert Mugabe, Kenneth Kaunda, and Kamuzu Banda. Also addresses efforts to create a literary-historical record from an African perspective, an account that challenges white historiographies in which the colonized was neither agent nor informer. Includes a comprehensive alphabetical guide. Index, bib, 302pp, USA. COLUMBIA U P.

In this book of essays, scholars of postcolonial studies, philosophy and literary criticism, informed by Said's wide-ranging scholarship, engage with and extend his work. Robert Young, author of White Mythologies, focuses his essay on the notion of hybridity and ethnicity in England. Benita Parry explores how a very English story of imperialism is narrated in Conrad's Nostromo. Other contributors include Bryan Cheyette, Moira Ferguson and Bruce Robbins. The collection also looks at the work of Frantz Fanon and cultural difference in Africa. 304pp, UK. LAWRENCE & WISHART.

First published in 1989 this is a new edition of the first major theoretical account of a wide range of post-colonial texts and their relation to the larger issues of post-colonial culture. Notes, bib, index, 246pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE, 0415280206

Homi K. Bhabha is one of the most highly renowned figures in contemporary post-colonial studies. This volume explores his writings and their influence on postcolonial theory, introducing in clear and accessible language the key concepts of his work, such as 'ambivalence', 'mimicry', 'hybridity' and 'translation'. This introductory guidebook is ideal for all students working in the fields of literary, cultural and postcolonial theory. Index, annotated bib, 202pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

Second edition of a seminal text in its field, investigates the way in which travel writing has constructed an image of the world beyond Europe for European readerships. Focusing on writing about South America and Africa in relation to the political and economic expansion of Europe, it has been completely updated, including a new preface, an updated introduction and a postscript reflecting critically on the category of the 'postcolonial' and how it has changed since the first edition was published in 1992. New material reads well-known Latin American texts through the concept of neo-coloniality and continues to discuss more general questions of the postcolonial in relation to the Americas and new ways of expressing late twentieth-century experiences of migration and displacement. 296pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

Critical assessments of the development of literature in their societies by diverse writers such as Ata Aidoo, Brodber, Senior, Astley, Van Herk, Bhatt, Kay, Kogawa and Dangaremba. Includes interviews, criticism and overviews. 636pp, AUSTRALIA. DANGAROO PRESS.

Looking at the fiction of Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Buchi Emecheta, Mariama Ba and Zora Neale Hurston, the author examines their symbolic use of the Diasporic condition of their characters. Index, bib, 218pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

Provides an overview of the main themes, issues and critical perspectives that have had the greatest effect on postcolonial literatures. Discussing the historical, cultural and contextual background that has affected postcolonial literatures and our reading of them, it contains selected work of some of the major writers from this period. 224pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

Shows how English has been shaped by and has had to contend with other languages in former British colonies. Also demonstrates that lan-guage is one of the central concerns of postcolonial literatures. Bib, index, vii, 182pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

A comprehensive selection of critical essays organised by topics such as Literature and the Nation, From Commonwealth to Postcolonial, Literature and Gender, Ideology, History, End of Empire, Form and Genre, and Modernisms. Each section is introduced and the extracts are placed within their historical contexts. A wide range of authors and philosophers are represented include C.L.R James, Franz Fanon, Chinua Achebe, Stuart Hall, Walter Benjamin, T.S. Eliot, George Steiner, Virginia Woolf, Edward Said, Seamus Heaney and Marilyn Butler, among many others. Index, notes, viii, 540pp, UK. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

New edition. A selection of essays explaining why the post colonial critique has altered forever the landscape of post-modern discourse, examining the displacement of the coloniser's legitimizing cultural authority. Includes discussions of writers such as Morrison, Gordimer and Rushdie. Index, notes, xxxi, 408pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

A selection of essays asking how a sense of nationhood is evoked in literature and what constitutes an expression of authenticity. Essays include Literature Nation-alism's Other?, European pedigrees/African Contagions: Nationality, Narrative, and Communality in Tutuola, Achebe, and Reed and Dissemination: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation. Index, notes, viii, 333pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

Now in paperback. An historical account of anti-westernism showing that this modern phenomenon has a long history rooted in western enlightenment philosophy. Index, notes, 165pp, UK. ATLANTIC BOOKS.

Proposes a radical view of the influence that colonized societies have on their former colonizers. Demonstrates the remarkable capacity for change and adaption emanating from post-colonial cultures both in everyday life and in the intellectual spheres of literature, history and philosophy. Notes, refs, index, 170pp, UK. CONTINUUM.

A new edition of this highly acclaimed work in which the author challenges the West's attitude to the East over the centuries. Includes a new preface. Index, notes, xxv, 396pp, UK. PENGUIN.

Broad overview of post-colonial texts that 'write back' to classic English texts. Focuses on responses to texts that have frequently been associated with the colonial project or the construction of 'race', and on texts where the interaction between culture and imperialism is less overt. Notes, bib, index, vii, 200pp, UK. CONTINUUM.

Focusing on a series of major works from Conrad's Hearts of Darkness to Assia Djebar's autobiographies, the author elucidates a wide range of theoretical and critical work and raises crucial questions about the basis of postcolonial critical practice. Other authors discussed include Franz Fanon, Chinua Achebe and Driss Chraibi. Index, refs, bib, notes, vii, 221pp, UK. POLITY PRESS.

A short introduction to the major issues involved with postcolonialism. The author discusses its importance as a historical condition and political philosophy and uses examples from global social and ecological movements. Index, ref, 178pp, UK. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

A collection of essays focusing on how the postcolonial condition is reflected in the writing of authors such as Harriet Jacobs and Zora Neale Hurston in the USA, Jamaica Kincaid, Paul Marshal and Edwidge Danticat in the Caribbean and Mariama Ba, Ama Ata Aidoo, Buchi Emecheta and Tsitsi Dangaremba in Africa. The issues of re writing history, and re imaging culture are also discussed. Index, notes, xxix, 348pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

New edition. Alphabetically-arranged definitions of key issues that characterise post-colonialism, including diaspora, Fanonism, mimicry, settler-colony, imperialism, transculturation, and many others. Index, bib, 292pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

A series of essays vigorously challenging colonial discourse theory and post colonialism. The author illustrates her theoretical position with several detailed textual and contextual studies of Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, and E.M. Forster. Index, notes, xi, 239pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

The most comprehensive selection of key texts in post-colonial theory and criticism yet com-piled. This collection covers a huge range of topics and issues, and features nearly ninety of the most widely read pieces, reflecting the diversity of work in the field and the vibrancy of anti-imperialist writing both within and without the metropolitan centres. Contributors include all the leading figures in the area of post-colonial writing, theory and criticism (such as Franz Fanon, Chinua Achebe, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ngugui wa Thiong'o, Homi Bhabha, Derek Walcott, Edward Said, and Trinh T. Minh-ha) as well as less established critics and new names to the discourse. 544pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

Introducing students to the history of the great European empires and the cultural legacies created in their wake, this book brings together an international range of contributors on such topics as: the colonial histories of Britain, France, Spain and Portugal; the diverse postcolonial and diaspora cultural endeavours from Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Europe, and South and East Asia; the major theoretical formulations: poststructuralist, materialist, culturalist, psychological. With a comprehensive A to Z of forty key writers and thinkers central to contemporary postcolonial studies and featuring historical maps, this is both a concise introduction and an essential interdisciplinary resource. Index, bib, 252pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

An exploration of the many ways in which cultural contexts in which food and cooking are important in women's literature of the last two centuries. The authors whose work is discussed include Tsitsi Dangaremba and Toni Morrison. Index, notes, x, 257pp, USA. STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK.

Includes insights from Marxism, feminism, deconstruction, colonial discourse theory and narrative theory to reassess the value of Conrad's writing today. Essays from South Africa, Korea, Britain, the USA and Canada. Index, 216pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN PRESS.

An exploration of the contested role of veiling over the last 120 years looking at its representations in writing from the east and west. The author uses the work of writers such as Assia Djebar, Naguib Mahfouz and Franz Fanon to illustrate how veiling has become to stand for both oppression and resistance. Countries and regions discussed include North Africa, Egypt, the Eastern Mediterranean, and India. Index, bib, notes, ix, 259pp, UK. PLUTO PRESS.

Susheila Nasta

To celebrate the literary magazine Wasafiri's twentieth anniversary, this volume brings together a selection of thirty one interviews with major international writers, previously featured in the magazine. Features Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Nadine Gordimer, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Jamaica Kincaid, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Caryl Philips, Wole Soyinka and many other international writers. 375pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.