Making Words MatterWhy should Salman Rushdie describe his truth telling as an act of swallowing impure haram flesh from which the blood has not been drained? Why should Rudyard Kipling cast Kim, the imperial childagent, as a body text written upon and damaged by empire? Why should E. M. Forster evoke through the Indian landscape the otherwise unspeakable racial or homosexual body in his writing? In Making Words Matter: The Agency of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature,