1. Introduction / John McLeod
Pt. I. The colonial empires
2. The British empire / Máire ní Fhlathúin
3. The French empire / Charles Forsdick
4. The Spanish and Portuguese empires / Claire Taylor
Pt. II. Postcolonial locations
5. Africa: north and sub-Saharan / David Murphy
6. Australasia / Alice Brittan
7. Canada / Mark Shackleton
8. The Caribbean / Melanie Otto
9. Ireland / Luz Mar González Arias
10. Latin America / Claire Taylor
11. Southern Africa / Kai Easton
12. South and East Asia / Anshuman Mondal
13. Diaspora / James Procter
Pt. III. Postcolonial formulations
14. Poststructuralist formulations / Stephen Morton
15. Culturalist formulations / James Procter
16. Materialist formulations / David Murphy
17. Psychological formulations / Abigail Ward
Pt. IV. A-Z: forty contemporary postcolonial writers and thinkers.