Critics and Writers Speak

Igor Maver is Professor of English at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.

• Part 1 Essays Chapter 2 Post-Colonial Literatures in English ab origine ad futurum Chapter 3 Proteus, Gertrude, and the Post Colonial Rag Chapter 4 Cannibal Rights: Intertextuality and Postcolonial Discourse in the Caribbean Region Chapter 4 Reading Literatures in English without Theory Chapter 6 Archaic Ambivalence: The Case of South Africa Chapter 7 Remembering Whiteness: Reading Indigenous Life Narrative Chapter 8 Recolonisation and Disinheritance: the Case of Tasmania Chapter 9 Here and There as Everywhere: Writing On in Monkey Beach Chapter 10 Maori Theater on Its Own Ground: Moving Past the 'Post' in Post-Colonialism Chapter 11 Sparring With Shadows, or Is There a Post-Colonial Child? Part 12 Interviews Chapter 13 'Magwitch' is Really My Ancestor': Interview with Peter Carey Chapter 14 Deep Vibrancy of Silence: Interview with Trinh T. Minh-ha Chapter 15 Interview with the Jamaican Writer Opal Palmer Adisa

In this book by Igor Maver, a foremost thinker from post-socialist Slovenia, the term "post-colonial," once a household term with its detailed history of cosmetic whims, takes a vertiginous dip, seethes for a while, with other master signifiers, in the caldron of diasporic theory, to then resurface, humbled and changed utterly.