Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Beyond the Commonwealth: Post-Colonialism and American Literature -- THE EXCLUSION OF US TEXTS FROM THE POST-COLONIAL CANON -- COMPARATIVITY AS A POST-COLONIAL METHODOLOGY -- Works Cited -- 2. Post-Colonialism in the United States: Diversity or Hybridity? -- IS THE US POST-COLONIAL? -- IMMIGRATION AS A MASCULINE ENTERPRISE -- THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE -- Works Cited -- 3. Ethical Reading and Resistant Texts -- Works Cited -- 4. Fractures: Written Displacements in Canadian/US Literary Relations -- MINUS TIME - 1 -- IMAGE 1 - HOLLYWOOD NORTH -- MINUS TIME - 2 -- IMAGE 2 - THE BULLY -- MINUS TIME - 3 -- FINAL IMAGE/IMAGE WITHOUT END - THE ABORIGINAL -- Works Cited -- 5. The Rhythm of Difference: Language and Silence in "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith" and "The Piano" -- Works Cited -- 6. Locating and Celebrating Difference: Writing by South African and Aboriginal Women Writers -- SEMI-FICTIONALIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- REPRESENTATION AND WRITING -- BESSIE HEAD -- LOCATION, GEOGRAPHY AND IDENTITY -- Works Cited -- 7. Coming in From the Margins: Gender in Contemporary Zimbabwean Writing -- Works Cited -- 8. The Memory of Slavery in Fred D'Aguiar's "Feeding the Ghosts" -- Works Cited -- 9. 'Versioning' the Revolution: Gender and Politics in Merle Collins's "Angel" -- Works Cited -- 10. Erupting Funk: The Political Style of Toni Morrison's "Tar Baby" and "The Bluest Eye" -- Works Cited -- 11. Afro-Hispanic Literature and Feminist Theories: Thinking Ethics -- I -- II -- III -- Works Cited -- 12. Chicano/a Literature: An Active Interanimating of Competing Discourses -- Works Cited -- 13. Border Theory and the Canon -- Works Cited -- 14. Racialism and Liberation in Native American Literature -- Works Cited -- 15. Ants in the System: 'Thinking Strongly' about Native American Stories -- Works Cited -- List of Contributors -- Index.