This innovative book by one of the leading exponents in the field introduces ‘postcolonialism? in both theoretical and historical terms. Robert Young provides a wide–ranging analysis of postcolonial theory?s emergence from anticolonial movements in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America, tracing the development of a transnational third–world counter–modernity through the work of major figures of the freedom struggles, including Cabral, Connolly, Fanon, Gandhi, Guevara, Nkrumah, Mao, Mariategui, and Senghor, and through the roles played by women activists. Young suggests that the anti–colonial movements were revolutionary mixtures of the indigenous and the cosmopolitan, diasporic formations of intellectual and cultural resistance that produced new kinds of knowledge that flourished alongside anti–colonial political practice. Postcolonial theory marks the intrusion of these radically different perspectives into the academy, hitherto dominated by the criteria of the west. ...