The long and admirable 70 page introduction outlines the postcolonial field of studies in as succinct and lucid a manner as possible taking special care to note that in this field there is no such thing as consensus. The fields most marked characteristic is perhaps its diversity which is not too surprising given the wide scope of historic, cultural and psychic circumstance now under its scrutiny. Excellent summaries of the primary figures in the field as well as an awareness of the provisionality of any self-definition (of both the field of study and the political reality), for as postcolonial theories evolve so do the definitions of the postcolonial.
Essays: 1)Cesaire from Discourse on Colonialism 2)Fanon On National Culture 3)Achebe An Image of Africa:Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness 4)Said Orientalism Revisited 5)Spivak Three Womens Texts and a Critique of Imperialism 6)Bhabha Race, Time, and Revision of Modernity 7)Bryden/Tiffin West Indian Literature and the Australian Comparison 8)Bell Hooks Revolutionary Black Women:Making Ourselves Subject 9)JanMohamed/Lloyd Toward a Theory of Minority Discourse: What is to be done? 10)Ahmad from In Theory:Classes, Nations, Literatures.

Published in 1996 this book addresses issues first raised with the book which initiated postcolonial theory, Edward Said's Orientalism. While challenging some of Saids methods and conclusions Bart Moore-Gilbert and his colleagues present a much more focused and nuanced approach to postcolonial theory.
As Moore-Gilbert writes in the introductory essay:
For too long now, colonial discourse analysis, as derived from Orientalism,has assumed that identical regimes of power and knowledge organised both the political management of empire and all the varied literature which represented it.
Writing India thus practices postcolonial theory("informed by questions of gender, sexuality, and psychic effect in colonial relations") and presents an ongoing critique of it concurrently.
The nine essay include analysis of work by following authors: Kipling, Forster, Scott,as well as material from eighteenth century and Romantic period and the writng of British women on India. It concludes with a chapter on Salman Rushdie "to suggest the complex relation of continuity as well as conflict between colonial and postcolonial constructions of India". Also in 1997 Moore-Gilbert published a concisely written study of the three main postcolonial theorists (Said, Spivak, Bhabha)along with a detailed analysis of the criticism of their work called Postcolonial Theory, Contexts, Practices, Politics.