This is an analysis of the complex relationship between social relations and spatial relations. It sets out a new direction for postcolonial theory, and draws on analysis of a wide range of literary and non-literary texts to illustrate its new more materialist approach.

Sara Mills is Research Professor in Linguistics at Sheffield Hallam University

1. Introduction
2. Colonial subjectivity, gender and space
3. Knowing and viewing landscape
4. Public and domestic colonial architecture
5. Indigenous spatiality within the colonial sphere
6. Conclusions
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