What postcolonial theory doesnt say This book reclaims postcolonial theory addressing persistent limitations in the geographical disciplinary and methodological assumptions of its dominant formations and emerging from an investment in the future of postcolonial studies and a commitment to its basic premise; namely the conception of particular cultural and literary articulations in relation to larger structures of colonial and imperial domination as a way of putting the theory back in postcolonial theory. To a certain extent postcolonial theory is a victim of its own success in part from the institutionalization of the insights that it has enabled: now that they no longer seem new it is hard to know what the fields work should be beyond these general commitments or what its practitioners should be debating. The renewal of popular anti imperial energies across the globe provides a rare opportunity to reassert the political and theoretical value of the postcolonial as a comparative interdisciplinary and oppositional paradigm. This collection makes a claim for what postcolonial theory can say through the work of scholars articulating what it still cannot or will not say. It explores ideas that a more aesthetically sophisticated postcolonial theory might be able to address focusing on questions of visibility performance and literariness. Contributors highlight some of the shortcomings of current postcolonial theory in relation to contemporary political developments such as Zimbabwean land reform postcommunism and the economic rise of East Asia. Finally they address the disciplinary geographical and methodological exclusions from postcolonial studies through a detailed focus on new disciplinary directions (management studies theories of the state) overlooked places and perspectives (Palestine Weimar Germany the environmentalism of the poor) and the necessity of materialist analysis for understanding both world and world literary systems