a mildly amusing joke

His skimped allowance of grey beard was almost of the colour of his skin.

algid malaria

The complexity of postcolonial theories of identity may be understood in terms of the spati-temporal location of identity as an unrecurable and irreversible discursive and material artifact located in the ever-unfolding temporal “beyond” and in aesthetic and performative terms as hybrid or syncretic identities (Anzaldua, 1987; Bhabha, 1994; Hall, 1990; Spivak, 1985). The notion of an unrecurable identity is articulated by Spivak through the temporal trope “always, already.”