TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I -- NEGOTIATING WITH THE "POST-WORLD" -- LATE MODERNISM -- SILVIO BERLUSCONI AND THE SECOND ITALIAN REPUBLIC -- PART II -- PRE- AND POST-HOLOCAUST READING OF THE TEMPEST BY LEON SCHILLER IN 1938/39 AND 1947 -- POSTMODERN FIREWORKS OR POSTCOLONIAL VENGEANCE -- HAS POSTMODERNISM REALLY REACHED THE NATIONAL? -- PART III -- IRIGARAY'S CRITIQUE OF THE OCULARCENTRIC PARADIGM -- ART AND FEMINISM FROM A POSTSTRUCTURALIST PERSPECTIVE -- PART IV -- TOWARDS THE POST-ETHNIC AMERICAN STUDIES? -- POSTINDIAN WARRIORS OF SIMULATION -- POSTCOLONIALISM AND THE POLISH COLONIAL IDEOLOGY.