As a subject, post-colonial studies stands at the intersection of debates about race, colonialism, gender, politics and language. In the language of post-colonial studies, some words are new, others are familiar but charged with new significance. This volume provides an essential key to understanding the issues that characterize postcolonialism, explaining what it is, where it is encountered and why it is crucial in forging new cultural identities. It includes definitions of:

• diaspora
• Fanonism
• imperialism
• Manicheanism
• mimicry
• negritude
• orientalism
• settler-colony
• transculturation

This comprehensive glossary has extensive cross-referencing, suggestions for further reading at the end of each entry, a bibliography of essential writings in post-colonial studies and is presented in an easy-to-use A–Z format. Bill Ashcroft teaches in the English Department at the University of New South Wales, Gareth Griffiths at the University of Western Australia and Helen Tiffin at the University of Queensland.