Beginning Post colonialism is an attempt to help you to make your own beginnings in one of the most exciting and challenging field of study that has emerged in recent years. It aims to introduce you to the various ways that we can approach, perhaps for the first time, literature in English produced by writers who either come from, or have an ancestral purchase upon, countries with a history of colonialism. For postmodernism has indeed shown an extraordinary capacity to renew itself in the conflagration of its demise.