Locations of culture -- The commitment to theory -- Interrogating identity: Frantz Fanon and the postcolonial prerogative -- The other question: stereotype, discrimination and the discourse of colonialism -- Of mimicry and man: the ambivalence of colonial discourse -- Sly civility -- Signs taken for wonders: questions of ambivalence and authority under a tree outside Delhi, May 1817 -- Articulating the archaic: cultural difference and colonial nonsense -- DissemiNation: time, narrative and the margins of the modern nation -- The postcolonial and the postmodern: the question of agency -- By bread alone: signs of violence in the mid-nineteenth century -- How newness enters the world: postmodern space, postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation -- Conclusion: 'race', time and the revision of modernity.