ABSTRACT
Post-Colonial is one of the best and most influential early critiques of postcolonial theory, and it was particularly harsh on postcolonialism's 'ahistorical deployments and potentially depoliticising implications'. The chapter begins the term 'post-colonial' which she hyphenates throughout implies false closure, wrongly signaling the end of a particular historical age, that of colonialism and Third-World nationalist struggles. It is rather that there are so many different empires to choose from, so many different centers both from and against which postcolonial creative writers and critics might be emboldened to write. There seems to be no part of the contemporary world that falls outside of the so-called 'postcolonial condition'. The chapter approach recent attempts by Janet Wilson and others to 'reroute' postcolonial studies with a certain trepidation. Wilson notes in the introduction to her eponymous volume, Rerouting the Postcolonial that, since the turn of the millennium, the postcolonial field has entered new conceptual and geographical territory.
