ambivalence, 83

analysis, 125, 127

authoritative/authoritarian, 48, 62, 76, 147

(of) binary/binaries, 85

(of) capitalism, 32

colonial/colonizing/colonialism[see also colonial discourse], 6, 7, 9, 11–13, 18, 24, 27, 28, 35, 36, 63, 73, 77, 79, 81, 82, 84, 89–91, 105, 110, 128–130, 147, 150, 151

construction, 125, 139

[see also creation such as page, 126, 127]

contradictory/contradiction, 128

cultural/culture, 69, 72, 78, 82, 121, 122, 129

deconstructed, 89

deterministic, 89

disrupted, 89

dominant, 25, 28, 69, 76, 85, 89, 127, 128, 139, 146–148

double-voiced, 135

essentialist/essential, 130

ethics (of), 81

European, 87

exile/exiled, 81, 89, 145

(of) exotic, 147

foreign, 7, 47

fractured/fracturing, 133

fundamentalist, 32

hegemonic/hegemony, 71, 151

hybrid, 110

hyphenated, 76

historical/history, 121, 122

identity, 6

imperialist, 102

Indian, 147

(of) Islam, 32

literary, 105

materialist/materialism, 58, 79

matrice, 76

migrant, 147

monolithic, 90

nationalist, 58

object (of), 77, 78

ongoing, 126

oppressive, 13, 127

outside, 127, 146

overdetermined political, 126, 146, 148

post-colonial/post-colonialism, 87–89, 143, 151

postmodern, 141

power, 74, 118, 148, 151

rebellious, 57

resistance, 147

ruling, 27

secular/ (of) secularism, 48

(of) sublime, 87

shuttling, 77

singular, 76, 82

static, 130

subversion, 83

theoretical, 19, 87, 139

transformation, 47

travel, 79

unitary, 133

victim, 133

(of) violence, 33

Western, 32, 41–43, 45, 48, 72, 73, 126, 128, 129, 132, 133, 141

dislocation, 8, 16, 61, 108

displacement, 1, 6, 7, 33, 120, 129

effects, 1

geographical, 7

notion, 6

psychological, 7