ABSTRACT
There is no single period or moment marking the emergence of postcolonial approaches to sf, but rather a gradual and intermittent convergence of their concerns which can best be thought of in terms of a growing space of encounter and change, of active translation and transition in the margins between cultures. The meeting of cultural forms which are in these liminal spaces produces new, hybrid identities, “neither the one nor the other” (Bhabha 1994: 25), and both sf and postcolonialism are altered in this encounter.
