Journal of Postcolonial Writing

Article	Citations
The colonial remains of Brexit: Empire nostalgia and narcissistic nationalism	17
Planetary precarity and feminist environmental art practices in Antarctica	14
Claims of memory: Transgenerational traumas, fluid identities, and resistance in Hala Alyan’sSalt Houses	6
Planetary precarity and the pandemic	6
On writing transnational migration in On Black Sisters’ Street (2009) and Better Never Than Late (2019): An interview with Chika Unigwe	4
Ain’t no black in the (Brexit) Union Jack? Race and empire in the era of Brexit and the Windrush scandal	4
Nostalgia, identity, and homeland: Reading the narratives of the diaspora in Susan Abulhawa’s fiction	4
When Caliban writes back: Alameddine’s appropriation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest	4
The Brexit within: Mapping the rural and the urban in contemporary British fiction	4
“The Arab Room”: Detention, disorientation, and displacement in Palestinian airport narratives	3
Reclaiming Arab queerness, debunking white saviors: This Arab is queer, an anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab writers	3
Necropolitics in a post-apocalyptic zombie diaspora: The case of AMC’s The Walking Dead	3
We should all be radical feminists: A review of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s contribution to literature and feminism	3
Precarity and the stories we tell: Post-truth discourse and Indigenous epistemologies in Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle	3
“Eastern Europeans” and BrexLit	3
Living in dystopia: Fractured identities and COVID-19	3
Imagining the European periphery: Post-war Croatia in Aminatta Forna’sThe Hired Man	3
Liminal diasporas in the era of COVID-19	3
Neutralizing English: Han Suyin and the language politics of Third World literature	2
Clandestine crossings: Narrating Zimbabwe’s precarious diaspora in South Africa in Sue Nyathi’sThe Gold-Diggers(2018)	2
The experience of homecoming in Teju Cole’s Every Day Is for the Thief: An investigation into the othered “cosmopolitan stranger”	2
Diffractive spaces: An analysis of Malaysian cyberpunk	2
Thinking the delirious pandemic governance by numbers with Samit Basu’sChosen Spiritsand Prayaag Akbar’sLeila	2
Mohammed Hanif’sRed Birds: “Anti-colonial textuality” and beyond	2
Madness and psychiatry in K. Sello Duiker’s The Quiet Violence of Dreams	2

“I feel I am a man and a free man too”: Palawa voices and the ethics of representation in contemporary Tasmanian fiction	2
On sale: Aotearoa New Zealand literature in Germany	2
Traveller in one’s own land: Reverse movements in migritude literature	2
“Leave to quit boundaries”: Danger, precarity, and queer diasporas in the South Asian Caribbean	2
“We are all migrants through time”: History and geography in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West	2
Storying ourselves: Black Consciousness thought and adolescent agency in 21st-century Africa	2
Warning signs: Postcolonial writing and the apprehension of Brexit	2
Picturing precarity: Diasporic belonging and camp life in Leila Abdelrazaq’s Baddawi	2
Neoliberal extraction and aquatic resistance in Helon Habila’sOil on Water	2
Precarity, poverty porn and vernacular cosmopolitanism in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names and Meg Vandermerwe’s Zebra Crossing	2
Monsters within Hong Kong’s “cesspool of iniquity”: Kowloon Walled City and Temutma (1998)	1
The postcolonial millennium: New directions in Malaysian literature in English	1
Wong Phui Nam: Passing of a postcolonial literary pioneer	1
Caryl Phillips’s The Lost Child (2015): Re-imagining Emily Brontë’s “unquiet slumbers”	1
New Zealand literature and the global marketplace	1
Rewilding the world in the postcolonial age: On the nexus between cultural production and species politics	1
“A dangerous tool in the wrong hands”: Sovereign technologies in Alanis Obomsawin’s Is the Crown at War with Us? and Barry Barclay’s The Kaipara Affair	1
Challenging ecoprecarity in Paolo Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker trilogy	1
“The reign of error”: Tropes of exception in Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel	1
Why Australia? Inquiries and possibilities in the United States	1
Object as subject: Material agency in Ismat Chughtai’s “The Quilt” and “Chhoti Apa”	1
The anti-Antigone: Pākehā settler masculinity, racialized kinship, and contested paternity in Carl Nixon’s Settlers’ Creek	1
“Griffus ou non griffus”: Naming, baptism, and global racialized capitalism in Césaire’s La tragédie du roi Christophe	1
Writing against colonialism in South African memoir	1
Brexit literature’s present absentees: Triangulating Brexit, anti-Semitism, and the Palestinian crisis	1
Dalit Lekhika: Women’s writings from Bengal	1
Entangled peripheries: Spatial agency in Jackie Kay’sTrumpetand Caryl Phillips’sThe Lost Child	1
Remembering Jonestown through the camp and the postcolony: A multidirectional reading of Fred D’Aguiar’s Children of Paradise	1
Imperial pasts, dystopian futures, and the theatre of Brexit	1
Infection rebellion in Bina Shah’s Before She Sleeps	1
“I believe there are as many motherhoods as there are mothers”: In conversation with Jerry Pinto	1
The fragility of a more-than-human world: Ecological awareness in the poetry of Robert Bringhurst	1
Place and the postcolonial poetry of Nigeria	1
Inventing reality: Obstinate Orientalism in Victor Segalen’s René Leys	1
“Kin-fused” revenge: Rewriting the canon and settler belonging in Leah Purcell’sThe Drover’s Wife	1
“The right to narrate”: Gazans contest popular geopolitics with film	1
China, Malaysia, and millennial diasporic identity in Tash Aw’s The Face and Five Star Billionaire	1
Teaching Australia and Japan through Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North	1
Articulating New Zealand and literature in “New Zealand literature” classes: Attending to the parergon	1
Can the subaltern sing? Analogy, alienation and discursive precarity in Derek Walcott’sOmeros	1
Through an observer’s eyes: A conversation with author Siddhartha Gigoo	1
Beyond the “‘recruitable’ narrative”? The fictive portrayal of Pakistani Christians in Nadeem Aslam’s The Golden Legend	1
The ruins of referentiality: Allegorical realism and traumatic fragments in Scorpion Orchid and The Search	1
Czech translations and receptions of contemporary Australian fiction	1
“Do not shoot, I’m a B–b–British object!”: Reading David Malouf in Indian universities	1
Fragmentations, phantom limbs, re-memberings: Negotiating bodies, representation, and subjectivity in Caribbean British writing	1
“Home is a place in time”: Fractals and chronotopes in the poetry of Safia Elhillo	1
Transnational re-memorialization in Preeta Samarasan’s Evening Is the Whole Day	1
The ritual in the roadblock film: The wedding and the birthday in post-Oslo Palestinian Cinema	1
Michael Ondaatje’sRunning in the Familyand the “familia-graphic” gaze	1

Jeanine Leane’s counter-reading of Australian historical and cultural memory locally and internationally	1
Robinson Crusoe in the Pacific: REFUGIO by Roger Palmer and the Marxian theory of economic character masks	1
Stories as “med-sins”: Lee Maracle’s Ravensong and Celia’s Song	1
On the periphery: Contemporary exile fiction and Hungary	1
Robinson Crusoe : After the island	1
City, narratives, and nation: The representation of Karachi in H.M. Naqvi’s The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack	1
Writing an(Other) Europe: Challenging peripheries in Chika Unigwe’s fiction on Belgium	1
Deliberative agency: A study in modern African political philosophy Deliberative agency: A study in modern African political philosophy , by Uchenna Okeja, Indiana, Indi	1
Universalism and the Malaysian anglophone novel: Exploring inequality, migrancy, and class in Tash Aw’s We, the Survivors	1
Australian literature and its institutionalization in the offshore playground	1
Dancing with the nation: courtesans in Bombay cinema	1
From Oodgeroo Noonuccal to Alexis Wright: Postcolonial reading of Australian Indigenous literature in China, 1988–2018	1
“Making up stories is an inherently political act”: Mohsin Hamid in conversation	1
Greening White	1
“Space Probe”: Science fiction across the Black Atlantic. The speculative geographies of Amiri Baraka and Emmanuel Dongala	1
Interracial relations and the post-postcolonial future in Zen Cho’s Spirits Abroad	1
Distinguished and other voices	1
Writing back to Brexit: Refugees, transcultural intertextuality, and the colonial archive	1
Challenges and possibilities in the translation of Dalit literature: An interview with Susheela Punitha	1
A poetics of parallax: The significant geographies of Derek Walcott’s Omeros (1990)	1
Han Suyin’s translation philosophies in the context of Mainland China since the 1950s	1
(Post)colonial friendships and Empire 2.0: A Brexit reading of Victoria & Abdul	1
Narrating global asymmetries of power: Children’s play/games and photography in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names	1
Sarah Lark’s landscape novels and the “New Zealand exotic”	1
Purdah and polygamy: life in an Indian Muslim household	1
Decolonizing the museum: Leila Aboulela’s “The Museum”	1
Gender submerging the caste–class question? Revisiting Jyotirmoyee Devi’s The River Churning	1
On not writing back: Cosmopolitan paradoxes in new diasporic Malaysian writing today	1
“That hateful limit”: Narrative distancing and Palestinian subjectivity in the post-sumudfiction of Adania Shibli	1
Panchayat and colonialism in Humayun Kabir’s Men and Rivers	1
The new age of empire: How racism and colonialism still rule the world The new age of empire: How racism and colonialism still rule the world , by Kehinde Andrews, Londo	1
“I wanted to become an Abyssinian”: Rewriting Indro Montanelli’s memories of colonial Africa in Francesca Melandri’s Sangue giusto (2017)	0
Malayan Chinese women in a time of war: Gender, narration, and subversion in Han Suyin’s And the Rain My Drink	0
Place and postcolonial ecofeminism: Pakistani women’s literary and cinematic fictions	0
Creative lives: Interviews with contemporary South-Asian diaspora writers	0
Graphic migrations: Precarity and gender in India and the diaspora Graphic migrations: Precarity and gender in India and the diaspora , by Kavita Daiya, Philadelphia, Te	0
“I don’t want to be a tourist in my own country”: An interview with Michelle de Kretser	0
Jewish American writing and world literature: Maybe to millions, maybe to nobody	0
The art of COVID-19	0
Arun Kolatkar’s Bhijakī Vahī: Sacrifice and residues	0
Exclusion, empathy, and Islam: The Runaways in the literary marketplace	0
Our freedoms: Essays and stories from India’s best writers	0
Empire by invitation: William Walker and manifest destiny in Central America	0
Mobilities and Mediterranean peripheries: Narrating Maltese identities in Vincent Vella’sSlippery Steps	0
A century of encounters: Writing the other in Arab North Africa	0
A conversation with Timothy Brennan	0
Literary cultures and twenty-first-century childhoods	0
Queer terror: life, death, and desire in the settler colony	0
Pandemic: Invisibility and silence	0
A dissenting voice: The politics of Han Suyin’s literary activities in late colonial and postcolonial Malaya and Singapore	0
Writer as translator: Cultural translation in Han Suyin’sA Many-Splendoured Thing	0
From surviving to living: voice, trauma and witness in Rwandan women’s writing	0
Intersectional activism on social media: Anti-racist and feminist strategies in the digital space	0
Towards an intersectional literary criticism: Cross-Identity representations, social location, and Shani Mootoo’s intervention	0
Green academia: Towards eco-friendly education systems	0
Tormented visibility: Extremism, stigma, and staging resistance in Omar El-Khairy and Nadia Latif’s Homegrown	0
Narrating horrific refugee experiences in Hassan Blasim’s short fiction	0
Debating the Afropolitan	0
Mobilizing the past: The God of Small Things’ automotive ecologies	0
In search of Africa(s): universalism and decolonial thought	0
Cosmopolitanism and strange encounters in George Elliott Clarke’sThe Motorcyclist	0
Debt/law/realism: Nigerian writers imagine the state at independence Debt/law/realism: Nigerian writers imagine the state at independence , by Neil ten Kortenaar, Montre	0
Unseen city: The psychic lives of the urban poor Unseen city: The psychic lives of the urban poor , by Ankhi Mukherjee, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 263	0
And Then God Created Oxygen...	0
“You know that I’m different from them”: Performing national identity in Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud’s The Corsair	0
Yes-colonialism: The European dream	0
The idea of Indian literature: Gender, genre, and comparative method The idea of Indian literature: Gender, genre, and comparative method , by Preetha Mani, Evanston, No	0
“Intersectional perspectives and youthful trauma”: (Re)considering Gauri in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland	0
What survives is the singing	0
“To dream of a wildness distant from ourselves”: Capitalism, colonialism, and the Robinsonade	0
The Calcutta kerani and the London clerk in the 19th century: Life, labour, latitude The Calcutta kerani and the London clerk in the 19th century: Life, labour, latitude	0
Literatures of liberation: Non-European universalisms and democratic progress,	0
The transcontinental Maghreb: francophone literature across the Mediterranean	0
European peripheries in the postcolonial literary imagination	0
Satire and community in the time of COVID-19: An analysis of Ernest Ng’s Covidball Z	0
Displaced: Literature of indigeneity, migration, and trauma	0
Re-Imagining the Guyanas Re-imagining the Guyanas , edited by Lawrence Aje, Thomas Lacroiz, and Judith Misrahi-Barak,Montpellier, Presses universitaires de la Méditerran	0
From decolonization to destalinization: Aimé Césaire and the “Polish question”	0
Adventure comics and youth cultures in India	0
Radical hopefulness in Mohsin Hamid’s map of the world: A reading of Exit West (2017)	0

Introduction: Chinese diasporic writing	0
Shaping translingual writing and translation as intersectional practices: Nadeesha Uyangoda’s L’unica persona nera nella stanza and Sulla razza as case studies	0
Colour Everything	0
Recoding world literature: libraries, print culture, and Germany’s pact with books	0
Flattening the curse: Cooling down with Zadie Smith’s Intimations	0
“Musée de l’absence” and “Postcolonial flâneuse”	0
Two poems by Mīrājī (1912–49)	0
Insurgent imaginations: World literature and the periphery	0
Colonialism, transnationalism, and anarchism in the south of the Mediterranean	0
Standing on the Border: 2015	0
Tagore, nationalism and cosmopolitanism: Perceptions, contestations and contemporary relevance Tagore, nationalism and cosmopolitanism: Perceptions, contestations and contemporary relev	0
World literature in motion: institution, recognition, location	0
The theatrical imagining of diasporic modernity in Shih-I Hsiung’s Lady Precious Stream	0
Remembering the Indian Mutiny: Colonial nostalgia in Zadie Smith’sWhite Teeth	0
Afghanistan under siege: The Afghan body and the postcolonial border	0
“Golden hour”: Nostalgia and the demise of the Muslim urban space inTwilight in DelhiandSunlight on a Broken Column	0
Imagined community: Chinatown narrative in Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone and Steer Toward Rock	0
Six poems by Sambhunath Chattopadhyay	0
Creative radicalism: Culture and the Arab left after the uprising	0
“The pained and silent song of a branch”: Ecological precarity in the poetry of Taufiq Ismail and Khairani Barokka	0
Decolonising English studies from the semi-periphery	0
The Proverse Prize	0
Janet Frame’s world of books	0
“What I really wanted was some rivets, by heaven!” The labours of empire: Work and production in Conrad’s “Youth” and Heart of Darkness	0
Bangladeshi literature in English: A thrice born tradition	0
Rethinking Muslim narratives: Stereotypes reinforced or contested in recent genre fiction?	0
Moving archives, touch, and world literary melancholy in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian	0
Histories of dirt: Media and urban life in colonial and postcolonial Lagos	0
A sun in ambush, 2021: Reading Han Suyin today	0
Politics and poetics of (de)colonization in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift (2019)	0
Transnational narratives in Englishes of exile	0
Women, rememory, and herstory: Reading Hangwoman as a feminist fiction of memory	0
The bleeding border: Stories of Bengal Partition The bleeding border: Stories of Bengal Partition , edited by Joyjit Ghosh and Mir Ahammad Ali, New Delhi, Niyogi Books,	0
Olive Schreiner and African modernism: allegory, empire and postcolonial writing	0
Editor’s note	0
Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India , by Akshya Saxena, Princeton, NJ, Prin	0
Climate change and the new polar aesthetics: Artists reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic Climate change and the new polar aesthetics: Artists reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic	0
Diaspora & returns in fiction	0
Planting the weathervane: Neo-liberalism, international charity, and the premodern in Anuradha Roy’sSleeping on Jupiter(2015)	0
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan’s Postcolonial Banter and the paradoxes of spoken-word poetry	0
Contemporary Pasifika Poetry in Aotearoa New Zealand: An interview with Selina Tusitala Marsh	0
The Finley Confession	0
Marketing stories: Writing with faith and reading in search of spirituality in Elif Shafak’s fiction	0
A Sonnet after Empire	0
Queering tribal folktales from East and Northeast India	0
Documenting the unarchivable: Minor Detail and the archive of senses	0
Literature and the Indian working class: Mridula Koshy in conversation	0
Representations of precarity in South Asian literature in English	0
The Fall of Melaka	0
Islam and gender: major issues and debates	0
Intersectional environmentalism: Russell C. Leong’s “Azure in Angel City: A Blues Sketch, Part One”	0
Culture and the literary: Matter, metaphor, memory	0
South Asian digital humanities: Postcolonial mediations across technology’s cultural Canon	0
The Adivasi and the undead: From (post)colonial carnage to Necrocene apocalypse in Betaal (2020)	0
The disposition of nature: Environmental crisis and world literature	0
Live and let live: The Black 007 in No Time To Die	0
Allegories of the Anthropocene	0
Visuality and identity in post-millennial Indian graphic narratives	0
The living mountain: A fable for our times The living mountain: A fable for our times , by Amitav Ghosh, New Delhi, Fourth Estate India, 2022, 48 pp., ₹399 (hardback), I	0
Postcolonial literatures in the local literary marketplace: Located reading	0
The Passport CV	0
Kipling and Yeats at 150: retrospectives/prospectives	0
Of pink (and red) paint, Black lives (that matter), and intersectionality in Italy	0
Teaching Māori literature as a tauiwi scholar: A German case study	0
Sanity at the mercy of language: Interpreting the “nonsense” of a Chinese miner in Australia	0
The aqueous form and the Afro–Sino encounter in Yvonne Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea	0
Screams and laughter: Transfer of affect in Nadeem Aslam’sThe Blind Man’s Garden	0
In memoriam – Patrick Wolfe (1949–2016)1	0
Strasbourg, the crossroads and the borderline: Poetics of heterotopia in contemporary literature	0
World literature decentered: Beyond the “West” through Turkey, Mexico, and Bengal World literature decentered: Beyond the “West” through Turkey, Mexico, and Bengal , by	0
Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion and Terror, 1817–2020	0
Poetics and politics of shame in English literature	0
The poetics of the (un)named city in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West	0
The outlandishness of Han Suyin with particular reference to My House Has Two Doors	0
An agent’s view on diversity, secularism and religion: A conversation with Rukhsana Yasmin	0
South African London: Writing the metropolis after 1948 South African London: Writing the metropolis after 1948 , by Andrea Thorpe, Manchester, Manchester University Pre	0
Editor’s note	0
Babu Bangladesh!	0
Askari, colonial encounters, and postcolonial war commemoration inAfterlivesby Abdulrazak Gurnah	0
Performing Black British memory: Kat François’s spoken-word show Raising Lazarus as embodied auto/biography	0
Final frontiers: Science fiction and techno-science in Non-Aligned India Final frontiers: Science fiction and techno-science in Non-Aligned India , by Upamanyu Pablo Muk	0
Chiang Yee and his circle: Chinese artistic and intellectual life in Britain, 1930–1950 Chiang Yee and his circle: Chinese artistic and intellectual life in Britain, 1930–1950	0
Speculative fiction as “decolonial option”: Towards a “vulnerable reading” of Ali Mirdrekvandi’s No Heaven for Gunga Din (1965)	0
Writing and reading Zimbabwe in the global literary market: A case of four novelists	0
The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for A Planet in Crisis The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for A Planet in Crisis , by Amitav Ghosh, Gurugram, Penguin Random House India, 2021, 33	0
Life is not useful Life is not useful , by Ailton Krenak, translated by Alex Brostoff and Jamille Pinheiro Dias, Cambridge, Polity Books, 2023, 96 pp., £40.00 (hardback)	0
Black South African autobiography after Deleuze: Belonging and becoming in self-testimony	0
The new world literature Chronicles from the land of the happiest people on earth , by Wole Soyinka, London, Bloomsbury Circus, 2021, 464 pp., £20.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9	0
A Prague text: Reconfiguring marginality in and of Europe	0
Three poems by Shanta Acharya	0
Misogyny in The Eastern Slope Chronicle: An elegy for diasporic male chauvinism	0
Two Ghazals	0
Strategic auto-exoticism: Camara Laye’s L’Enfant noir (1953) and Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood (1994)	0
Rethinking the victim: Gender and violence in contemporary Australian women’s writing	0
Interpoetics or the poetics of culture and the culture of poetics in Hannah Lowe, Russell Leong, Marilyn Chin, and Fred Wah	0