Postcolonial RepresentationsPassionate allegiances to competing theoretical camps have stifled dialogue among today's literary critics, asserts Franoise Lionnet. Discussing a number of postcolonial narratives by women from a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, she offers a comparative feminist approach that can provide common ground for debates on such issues as multiculturalism, universalism, and relativism. Lionnet uses the concept of mtissage, or cultural mixing, in