Introduction : situating the postcolonial -- Postcolonial issues in performance -- Alternative histories and writing back -- Authorizing the self : postcolonial autobiographical writing -- Situating the self : landscape and place -- Appropriating the word : language and voice -- Narrating the nation : form and genre -- Rewriting her story : nation and gender -- Rewriting the nation : acknowledging economic and cultural diversity -- Transnational and black British writing : colonizing in reverse -- Citizens of the world : reading postcolonial literature