This glossary offers an interdisciplinary guide to the various concepts, practices and cultural products that have come to be known as 'postcolonial'. In addition to providing an essential orientation map for undergraduates taking courses in postcolonial literature and theory and postcolonial studies more generally, its range makes it a indispensable reference tool for those who have been working in the field for some time.

John Thieme is Articles Editor of The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. His books include The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (1996), Derek Walcott (1999) and Postcolonial Con-Texts: Writing Back to the Canon (2001).