ABSTRACT
Like all other elds of study and/or modes of critique in contemporary humanities, ‘postcoloniality’ and ‘race’ defy easy de nition or summation. Whether conceived of singly or in tandem, each term holds together, in sometimes uneasy if not con ictual 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 eld(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 de ned and readily summarized elds.
