In his biography of Said, Places of Mind, Timothy Brennan writes that beginning in the late 1990s, “postcolonial studies was no longer simply an academic field,” but rather an entire worldview, with a highly particularized jargon, including “ ‘the other,’ ‘hybridity,’ ‘difference,’ ‘Eurocentrism’ ”—terms that “could now be found in theater programs and publishers’ lists, museum catalogs, and even Hollywood film.”
