ABSTRACT
colonial discourse is neither a monolithic system nor a finite set of texts; it may more accurately be described as the name for a series of colonizing discourses, each adapted to a specific historical situation, yet having in common certain elements with the others. This series is marked by internal repetition, but not by all-encompassing totality; it is a series that continues, in some forms, through what we call the postcolonial world of today.
