This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part focuses on the indeterminate and unconditional, and upon the expiatory force of divine violence in Walter Benjamin’s critique. It considers Jacques Derrida’s analysis of Kafka’s parable, “Before the Law”, as a means of identifying the constitutive relation between law and literature. First published to great acclaim in 1965, Mudrooroo’s variously contested assertions of cultural identity are, in themselves, demonstrative of the unsettled positioning of postcolonial identities and, most particularly, of indigeneities. Indigenous literature, and its expression of Indigenous Law, operates in that which may be described as a postcolonial space, allowing the subaltern to ‘speak back’ to the imperial metropole. Indigenous authors have resisted the situation of their writing within a postcolonial discourse, perceiving it to be an imperialist denial of continued colonisation.