De-scribing empire : post-colonialism and textuality / edited by Chris Tiffin and Alan Lawson.

Incluye bibliografía.

Introduction : The textuality of empire / Chris Tiffin and Alan Lawson -- The scramble for post-colonialism / Stephen Slemon -- Excess : post-colonialism and the verandahs of meaning / Bill Ashcroft -- Some problems of response to empire in settler post-colonial societies / Chris Prentice -- Theorizing racism / Terry Collits -- The myth of authenticity : representation, discourse and social practice / Gareth Griffiths -- Breyten Breytenbach and the censor / J.M. Coetzee -- De-scribing orality : performance and the recuperation of voice / Helen Gilbert -- Inscribing the emptiness : cartography, exploration an dthe construction of Australia / Simon Ryan -- The unfinished Commonwealth : boundaries of civility in popular Australian fiction of the first Commonwealth decade / Robert Dixon -- ´The softest disorder´ : representing cultural indeterminacy / Fiona Giles -- ´The only free people in the Empire´ : gender difference in colonial discourse / Bridget Orr -- De-scribing The Water-babies : ´the child´ in post-colonial theory / Jo-Ann Wallace -- Modernity, voice, and window-breaking : Jean Rhys´s ´Let them call it jazz´ / Sue Thomas -- Speaking the unspeakable : London, Cambridge and the Caribbean / Paul Sharrad -- The speaking abject : the impossible world of realized empire / Howard McNaughton -- Conclusion : Reading difference / Alan Lawson and Chris Tiffin.