Bruce King is a freelance editor and writer. Has held professorships or distinguished visiting professorships at Ibadan, Lagos, Stirling, Windsor (Canada), Canterbury (NZ), Ben Gurion (Israel), Paris III, Paris VII, and North Alabama.

truly scholarly ... a most timely book and one which should be read by all in this field. Postcolonial studies are in desperate need of a book which is both comprehensive and scholarly, and this fills that need with point and challenge. Bruce King has once again demonstrated just how good an editor and scholar he is by choosing wisely and strategically his many contributors. The essays are both comprehensive and substantial, setting new standards for postcolonial criticism as well as providing very necessary backgrounds, something which many attempt but don't succeed in doing well or properly. / The range is impressive.

• PART I. INTRODUCTION ; PART II. ENTANGLED ROOTS ; PART III. SETTLERS, COLONIALS, AND NATIONALISTS ; PART IV. POST-COLONIALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS ; PART V. BRANCHES, SITUATIONS, AND DIFFERENCES

Bruce King is a freelance editor and writer. Has held professorships or distinguished visiting professorships at Ibadan, Lagos, Stirling, Windsor (Canada), Canterbury (NZ), Ben Gurion (Israel), Paris III, Paris VII, and North Alabama.

truly scholarly ... a most timely book and one which should be read by all in this field. Postcolonial studies are in desperate need of a book which is both comprehensive and scholarly, and this fills that need with point and challenge. Bruce King has once again demonstrated just how good an editor and scholar he is by choosing wisely and strategically his many contributors. The essays are both comprehensive and substantial, setting new standards for postcolonial criticism as well as providing very necessary backgrounds, something which many attempt but don't succeed in doing well or properly. / The range is impressive.

• PART I. INTRODUCTION ; PART II. ENTANGLED ROOTS ; PART III. SETTLERS, COLONIALS, AND NATIONALISTS ; PART IV. POST-COLONIALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS ; PART V. BRANCHES, SITUATIONS, AND DIFFERENCES

Bruce King is a freelance editor and writer. Has held professorships or distinguished visiting professorships at Ibadan, Lagos, Stirling, Windsor (Canada), Canterbury (NZ), Ben Gurion (Israel), Paris III, Paris VII, and North Alabama.

truly scholarly ... a most timely book and one which should be read by all in this field. Postcolonial studies are in desperate need of a book which is both comprehensive and scholarly, and this fills that need with point and challenge. Bruce King has once again demonstrated just how good an editor and scholar he is by choosing wisely and strategically his many contributors. The essays are both comprehensive and substantial, setting new standards for postcolonial criticism as well as providing very necessary backgrounds, something which many attempt but don't succeed in doing well or properly. / The range is impressive.

• PART I. INTRODUCTION ; PART II. ENTANGLED ROOTS ; PART III. SETTLERS, COLONIALS, AND NATIONALISTS ; PART IV. POST-COLONIALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS ; PART V. BRANCHES, SITUATIONS, AND DIFFERENCES