Volume 1, Number 1: History of Theory
Date of publication: March 2007
This issue of Postcolonial Studies, guest edited by Ian Hunter, is devoted to the history of theory.
Leela Gandhi’s introduction groups the issue’s diverse essays under the rubric of “exception”. The issue includes an important historical essay by Patrick Wolfe, “Corpus nullius: the exception of Indians and other aliens in US constitutional discourse”, in which the constitutional antecedents of the judicial and rights exclusions being perpetrated at Guantánamo Bay are shown, through a close reading of constitutional and case-law history, to be part of the constitutive exclusionary structure upon which is founded the United States of America.