Although a relatively new force in academic circles, postcolonialism has rapidly
expanded its conceptual reach over recent years so that it now depicts ���a
remarkably heterogeneous set of subject positions, professional fields and
critical enterprises.��� Self-consciously a literature of otherness and
resistance written out of the specific local experience, postcolonial studies
generates new literary avenues and opens up new vistas for the once colonized
and to the past imperial forces and serves as a mighty intellectual
force.Postcolonial Imaginings: Fissions and Fusions, is designed to rethink the
assumptions and discursive manoeuvres of postcolonialism and assess its
relationship to the other spheres of inquiry. In a field as diverse and
contentious