Front Cover -- The Post-Colonial Question -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part I: Critical landscapes -- 1. The undone interval: Trinh T. Minh-ha in conversation with Annamaria Morelli -- 2. Route work: the black Atlantic and the politics of exile: Paul Gilroy -- 3. Different, youthful, subjectivities: Angela McRobbie -- 4. Signs of silence, lines of listening: Iain Chambers -- Part II: Post-colonial time -- 5. Histories, empires and the post-colonial moment: Catherine Hall -- 6. African cities, historical memory and street buzz: Allessandro Triulzi -- 7. Irishness - feminist and post-colonial: Wanda Balzano -- 8. Ethnic conflict in post-colonial India: Amedeo Maiello -- 9. Black cultures in difference: Marie Hélène Laforest -- Part III: Frontier journeys: the space of interrogation -- 10. Between two shores: Lidia Curti -- 11. Defining forces: 'race', gender and memories of empire: Vron Ware -- 12. Identity and alterity in J. M. Coetzee's Foe: Laura Di Michele -- 13. The space of culture, the power of space: Lawrence Grossberg -- 14. Writers from elsewhere: Stefano Manferlotti -- Part IV: Whose world, whose home? -- 15. Unpacking my library . . . again: Homi K. Bhabha -- 16. Mass exoticisms: Clara Gallini -- 17. Some troubled homecomings: Demetrio Yocum -- 18. A tribe called Europe: Marina De Chiara -- 19. My son the fanatic: Hanif Kureishi -- 20. When was 'the post-colonial'? Thinking at the limit: Stuart Hall -- Index.