Iain Chambers and Lidia Curti both teach at the Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples.

• Part 1 Critical Landscapes; Chapter 1 The Undone Interval, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Annamaria Morelli; Chapter 2 Route Work: The Black Atlantic and the Politics of Exile, Paul Gilroy; Chapter 3 Different, Youthful, Subjectivities, Angela McRobbie; Chapter 4 Signs of Silence, Lines of Listening, Iain Chambers; Part 2 Post-Colonial Time; Chapter 5 Histories, Empires and the Post-Colonial Moment, Catherine Hall; Chapter 6 African Cities, Historical Memory and Street Buzz, Alessandro Triulzi; Chapter 7 Irishness – Feminist and Post-Colonial, Wanda Balzano; Chapter 8 Ethnic Conflict in Post-Colonial India, Amedeo Maiello; Chapter 9 Black Cultures in Difference, Marie Hélène Laforest; Part 3 Frontier Journeys: The Space of Interrogation; Chapter 10 Between Two Shores, Lidia Curti; Chapter 11 Defining Forces: ‘Race’, Gender and Memories of Empire, Vron Ware; Chapter 12 Identity and Alterity in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe, Laura Di Michele; Chapter 13 The Space of Culture, The Power of Space, Lawrence Grossberg; Chapter 14 Writers from Elsewhere, Stefano Manferlotti; Part 4 Whose World, Whose Home?; Chapter 15 Unpacking my Library … Again, Homi K. Bhabha; Chapter 16 Mass Exoticisms, Clara Gallini; Chapter 17 Some Troubled Homecomings, Demetrio Yocum; Chapter 18 A Tribe Called Europe, Marina De Chiara; Chapter 19 My Son the Fanatic, Hanif Kureishi; Chapter 20 When was ‘The Post-Colonial’? Thinking at the Limit, Stuart Hall;