Commonwealth Essays and Studies 29.1 (Strange/Stranger) deals with such widespread notions as "strangeness", "otherness" and "the foreign". A variety of approaches is taken by contributors, whether thematic (the use of sex and myth as paradigms of postcolonial tensions), formal (the postmodernist recourse to textual recycling or dialogism), or socio-cultural (the anthology as a meta-literary statement revelatory of the postcolonial writer's problematic relationship with the literary tradition he has inherited).