This best selling key guide, now in its second edition, provides an essential key to understanding the issues which characterize post-colonialism; explaining what it is, where it is encountered and why it is crucial in forging new cultural identities. As a subject, post-colonial studies stands at the intersection of debates about race, colonialism, gender, politics and language.

Previous ed. published under title: Key concepts in post-colonial studies. "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."

Aboriginal/indigenous peoples -- Abrogation -- African-American and post-colonial studies -- Agency -- Allegory -- Alterity -- Ambivalence -- Anti-colonialism -- Apartheid -- Appropriation -- Authentic/authenticity -- binarism -- Black Atlantic -- Black studies/black consciousness -- Borderlands -- Cannibal -- Caribbean/West Indian -- Cartography (maps and mapping) -- Catachresis -- Catalysis -- Centre/margin (periphery) -- Chromatism -- Class and post-colonialism -- Colonial desire -- Colonial discourse -- Colonial patronage -- Colonialism -- Commonwealth -- Commonwealth literature -- Comprador -- Contact zone -- Contrapuntal reading -- Counter-discourse -- Creole -- Creolization -- Cultural diversity/cultural difference -- Cultural tourism -- Decolonization -- Dependency theory -- Deracinate -- Diaspora -- Discourse -- Dislocation -- Double coloniazation -- Ecological imperialism -- Ecofeminism -- Empire -- Environmentalism -- Essentialism/strategic essentialism -- Ethnicity -- Ethnography -- Ethno-psychiatry/ethno-psychology -- Euro-centrism -- Exile -- Exotic/exoticism -- Exploration and travel -- Fanonism -- Feminism and post-colonialism -- Filiation/affiliation -- First nations -- Frontier -- Globalization -- Glocalization -- "Going native" -- Hegemony -- Hybridity -- Imperialism -- Indentured labour -- Independence -- Interpellation -- Liminality -- Magic realism -- Manicheanism -- Marginality -- Mestizo/mestizaje/metisse -- Metonymic gap -- Metropolis/metropolitan -- Mimicry -- Miscegenation -- Missions and colonialism -- Modernism and post-colonialism -- Modernity -- Mulatto -- Multitude -- Nation language -- Nation/nationalism -- National allegory -- National liberation movements -- Native -- Nativism -- Negritude -- Neo-colonialism/neo-imperialism -- Neoliberalism -- New literatures -- Orality -- Orientalism -- Other -- Othering -- Palimpsest -- Pidgins/creoles -- Place -- Post-colonial body -- Post-colonialism/postcolonialist -- Post-colonial reading -- Post-colonial state -- Postcolony -- Primitivism -- Race -- Rastafarianism -- Rhizome -- Religion and the postcolonial -- Savage/civilized -- Settler -- Settler colony -- Slave/slavery -- Speciesism -- Subaltern -- Subject/subjectivity -- Surveillance -- Syncretism -- Synergy -- Testimonio -- Third World (First, Second, Fourth) -- Transculturation -- Transnational literatures -- Translation -- Universalism/universality -- Washington Consensus -- Whiteness -- World system theory -- Worlding.