FRANÇOISE KRÁL is Senior Lecturer in English at the Université Paris 10, France. She has published widely on postcolonial literature and theory, in particular on the literature of the south Asian diaspora as well as on travel narratives and the representation of historical figures in Australian literature. She is the editor of
Re-presenting Otherness: Mapping the colonial 'self'/mapping the indigenous 'other' in the literatures of Australia and New Zealand.