Introduction 1 Fanon and Sartre: colonial Manichaeism and the call to arms 25 Decolonization, community, nationalism: Gandhi, Nandy and the Subaltern Studies Collective 54 Foucault and Said: colonial discourse and Orientalism 76 Derrida and Bhabha: self, other and postcolonial ethics 98 Khatibi and Glissant: postcolonial ethics and the return to place 126 Ethics with politics? Spivak, Mudimbe, Mbembe 151 Conclusion: neocolonialism and the future of the discipline 178