Unlike other readers this book takes eight important literary texts and provides some of the most significant post colonial readings of them published in the last fifteen years Topics include cannibalism slavery the harem missionary work gender nationalism and the Rushdie affair The book offers practical examples of applying theoretical arguments to specific texts Key Features Provides three or four cutting edge essays on each of the following texts Shakespeare s The Tempest Defoe s Robinson Crusoe Bronte s Jane Eyre Kipling s Kim Conrad s Heart of Darkness Joyce s Ulysses Forster s A Passage to India Rushdie s The Satanic Verses