Abstract
The title of this book reformulates the title of an Audre Lorde essay, "The Master's Tools Can Never Dismantle the Master's House" in order to capture the hybrid strategies of resistance adopted by five authors representative of post-colonial diasporas. The observation that resistances are "products of specific historical circumstances and rhetorical exigencies" (2) is a good cautionary note against dichotomies of oppressor and resister. The author provides a clear reason for the book—to counteract the (mis)-representation of such authors in resistance studies within the human and social sciences, and in classrooms that deem some works 'resistant' and others not. The author describes well the context of prevailing discourses (Timothy Brennan, Benita Parry, Homi Bhabha, James Scott, Lila Abu-Lughod, Stuart Hall, and others are cited as examples). There is also a useful clarification of the context of 'diaspora,' a term often used loosely.
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