Introduction : the concept of English Postcoloniality / Postcolonial tale / Out of the center : thoughts on the Post-colonial literatures of Australia and New Zealand / "Terrible beauty is born" : Irish literature as a paradigm for the formation of Postcolonial literatures / Caribbean writing in English : intimations of a historical nightmare / South African writing in English / Postcolonial East African literature : toward a literature of the people, for the people, and by the people? / Between cultures : insights on West African writing in English

Language, identity, and nation in Postcolonial Indian English literature / Prolegomena to the study of Pakistani English and Pakistani literature in English / Canadian writing in English and multiculturalism / Historical review of African-American literature / Margin or center? "Let me tell you! In the land of my ancestors I am the centre" : Indigenous writing in Aotearoa / On women's writing in Aotearoa/New Zealand : Patricia Grace, Keri Hulme, Cathie Dunsford / Nesting in the ruins / Aboriginal writing : twisting the colonial super-narrative