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The Post-Colonial Question: Common Skies, Divided Horizons. Iain Chambers, Lidia Curti, eds. New York. Routledge. 1996. xii + 269 pages. ISBN 0-415-10857-8 (10858-6 paper).
The subtitle to The Post-Colonial Question, "Common Skies, Divided Horizons," indicates the thrust of this collection of essays, which seeks to look beyond, or indeed, to disrupt, "the Euro-American sense of where the 'centre' lies." One is not sure whether the Euro-Americans do still nurture any sense of` a single "centre"; however, the intention of the editors to present a plurality of voices rather than a melting pot of them is made amply clear. Conceived around the tropes of location, space, territory, time, and travel, the essays reconsider a variety of postcolonial questions, in a variety of ways. What is perhaps most interesting about this collection is that it ranges from a conversation...