Iain Chambers is a professor in the faculty of Arts at the Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples. He is the author of Popular Culture: The Metropolitan Experience (Routledge 1996), Migrancy, Culture, Identity (Routledge 1993) and co-editor of The Postcolonial Question (Routledge 1996).

• Introduction; Chapter 1 A Question of History; Chapter 2 Earth Frames; Chapter 3 History, the Baroque and the Judgement of Angels; Chapter 4 A Voice in the Dark, A Map of Memory; Chapter 5 Architecture, Amnesia and the Emergent Archaic; Chapter 6 A Stranger in the House; Chapter 7 The Edge of the World;