Reviews

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The race for theory Appiah, Kwame Anthony. 1992. In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture. London: Methuen. 366pp. Baker, Houston A., Jr. 1991. Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro‐American Women's Writing. Phototext by Elizabeth Alexander and Patricia Redmond. Black literature and culture. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 239pp. LaCapra, Dominick, (ed). 1991. The Bounds of Race: Perspectives on Hegemony and Resistance. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.350pp. Suleri, Sara. 1992. The Rhetoric of English India. Chicago & London: Chicago University Press. 230pp. Putting the Diaspora at the centre Gay Wilentz. 1992. Binding Cultures: Black Women Writers in Africa and the Diaspora. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 141pp. Also: Joanne M Braxton and Andrée Nicola McLaughlin (eds). 1990. Wild Women in the Whirlwind: Afra‐American Culture and the Contemporary Literary Renaissance. London: The Serpent's Tail. 441pp. Susheila Nasta (ed). 1992. Motherlands: Black Women's Writing from Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia. 366pp. (Also reviewed in Current Writing 4 (1992).) The metropolis and the two cousins of the commonwealth Karen R. Lawrence (ed). 1992. Decolonizing Tradition: New Views of Twentieth Century ‘British’ Literary Canons. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 291pp. Gillian Whitlock and Helen Tiffin (eds). 1992. Resiting Queen's English: Text and Tradition in Post‐Colonial Literatures. Essays presented to John Pengweme Matthews. Cross/Cultures 7. Series Editors: Gordon Collier, Hena Maes‐Jelinek and Geoffrey Davis. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi. 203pp. Nets and networking Ian Adam and Helen Tiffin (eds). 1991. Past the Last Post: Theorizing Post‐Colonialism and Post‐Modernism. London: Harvester. 214pp. Reading postmodernism(s) Brian McHale. 1992. Constructing Postmodernism. London: Routledge. 342pp. Patricia Waugh (ed). 1992a. Postmodernism: A Reader. London: Edward Arnold. 226pp. Patricia Waugh. 1992b, Practising Postmodernism/Reading Modernism. London: Edward Arnold. 176pp. Contested frontiers: colonialism, Christianity and the construction of ethnicity. Jean and John Comaroff. 1991. Of Revelation and Revolution: Christianity, Colonialism and Consciousness in South Africa. Volume One. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 414pp. Clifton C. Crais. 1992. The Making of the Colonial Order: White Supremacy and Black Resistance in the Eastern Cape, 1770–1865. Johannesburg: The Witwatersrand University Press. 284pp.