There is … a great deal more to be said for post-colonial studies … Whatever its romantic illusions and secret self regard, this most rapidly growing [1999] sector of literary criticism signals the entry onto the Western cultural stage, for the first time in its history, of those the West has most

the problem of writing: in order to designate something exactly, inexact expressions are unavoidable. Not at all because it is a neces- sary step, or because one can advance only by approximations; on the con- trary, it is the exact passage of that which is under way – Deleuze & Guattari,

Germany bore witness to the Death of God. America saw and presided at the Death of Man. Colonies see the Death of the World.