ABSTRACT
Like all other fields of study and/or modes of critique in contemporary humanities, ‘postcoloniality’ and ‘race’ defy easy definition or summation. Whether conceived of singly or in tandem, each term holds together, in sometimes uneasy if not conflictual co-existence, a diverse range of critics working from a vast array of theoretical, ideological, aesthetic, historical and regional perspectives. What I present here is a particular partisan argument in the full knowledge that someone else working in the same field(s) would, in all likelihood, present the argument differently, if not present a different argument altogether. In short, I want to convey the sense that postcoloniality and race are sites of contestation and debate rather than clearly defined and readily summarized fields.
