The world of ‘posts’ – postmodern, post-apartheid, post-9/11 – is said to be characterised by information flows, cultural exchanges, translations, diverse experiences, and border crossings. Such movements – whether conversations or journeys – are challenging and arduous. The module explores the perspectives of metropolis and colony, or North and South, through a variety of textual contexts. We look comparatively at texts not only from western Europe and South/Africa, but also by writers from the former Eastern Europe, the United States, Zanzibar, and China. A series of questions will focus the study on issues of belonging and dis/location, ‘home and/ as exile‘.