Contents -- Acknowledgments -- English Postcoloniality -- I GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- Introduction: The Concept of English Postcoloniality -- II HISTORICAL SURVEY -- Out of the Center: Thoughts on the Post-colonial Literatures of Australia and New Zealand -- ''A 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 ofthe 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 -- III INDIGENOUS LITERATURES -- 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 -- Bibliography of Further Reading -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.