<div>Tracing a genealogy of colonial discourse, Suleri focuses on<br>paradigmatic moments in the multiple stories generated by the<br>British colonization of the Indian subcontinent. Both the<br>literature of imperialism and its postcolonial aftermath emerge<br>here as a series of guilty transactions between two cultures that<br>are equally evasive and uncertain of their own authority.<br><br>"A dense, witty, and richly allusive book . . . an extremely valuable contribution to postcolonial cultural studies as well as to the whole area of literary criticism."--Jean Sudrann, <i>Choice</i><br><br></div>