| Prologue |
| In the Beginning: Third Text and the Politics of Art / Sean Cubitt |
| History |
| Introduction / Ziauddin Sardar |
| Contemporary Cultural Practice: Some Polemical Categories / Geeta Kapur |
| The Latin American Origins of 'Alternative Modernism' / David Craven |
| Reverse Appropriation as Nationalism in Modern African Art / Olu Oguibe |
| Displaying Authenticity and Progress / Johan Lagae |
| Colonial/Postcolonial Intersections / Zeynep Celik |
| Whose Heritage? Un-settling 'The Heritage', Re-imagining the Post-Nation / Stuart Hall |
| Representation |
| Discovering the European Wild Men / Annie E. Coombes ; Roger Bartra |
| 'Cowboys and ...' / Jimmie Durham |
| Ethnicity and Internationality: New British Art and Diaspora-based Blackness / Kobena Mercer |
| Art as Ethnocide: The Case of Australia / Anne-Marie Willis ; Tony Fry |
| Identity |
| Identity: Reality or Fiction? / Jorella Andrews ; Sebastian Lopez |
| Identity and Myth Today / Ticio Escobar |
| The Voice of a Palestinian in Exile / Edward Said |
| The Others: Beyond the 'Salvage' Paradigm / James Clifford |
| Restless Hybrids / Nikos Papastergiadis |
| Film |
| Dancing with Words and Speaking with Forked Tongues / Merryl Wyn Davies ; Jean Fisher |
| Walt Disney and the Double Victimization of Pocahontas |
| Directing the Real: Orapronobis against Philippine Totalitarianism / Jonathan L. Beller |
| The Critical Practice and Dialectics of Third Cinema / Michael Wayne |
| Post Theory |
| Queries for Postcolonial Studies / Ihab Hassan |
| Signs of Our Times: Discussion of Homi Bhabha's The Location of Culture / Benita Parry |
| The Failure of Postmodernity: How Africa Misunderstood the West / Denis Ekpo |
| The Marco Polo Syndrome / Gerardo Mosquera |
| Globalization |
| Scene and Obscene / Julian Stallabrass ; Zygmunt Bauman |
| The 'New Asian Museum' in the Age of Globalization / Rustom Bharucha |
| Cybersublime: Representing the Unrepresentable in Digital Art and Politics / John Byrne |
| Against the Double Blackmail / Slavoj Zizek |
| Obscene from Any Angle / George Ritzer |
| Epilogue |
| A New Beginning: Beyond Postcolonial Cultural Theory and Identity Politics / Rasheed Araeen |
| Notes |
| Contributors |
| List of Illustrations |
| Index |
| Prologue |
| In the Beginning: Third Text and the Politics of Art / Sean Cubitt |
| History |
| Introduction / Ziauddin Sardar |
| Contemporary Cultural Practice: Some Polemical Categories / Geeta Kapur |
| The Latin American Origins of 'Alternative Modernism' / David Craven |
