Journal of Postcolonial Writing

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Postcolonial Writing is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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South Asian digital humanities: Postcolonial mediations across technology’s cultural Canon6
Teaching Australia and Japan through Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North6
Rethinking the “postcolonial” in the postcolonial interview5
Introduction: Chinese diasporic writing5
The idea of Indian literature: Gender, genre, and comparative method The idea of Indian literature: Gender, genre, and comparative method , by Preetha Mani, Evanston, No5
“What I really wanted was some rivets, by heaven!” The labours of empire: Work and production in Conrad’s “Youth” and Heart of Darkness5
Robinson Crusoe : After the island4
“To dream of a wildness distant from ourselves”: Capitalism, colonialism, and the Robinsonade4
The poetics of the (un)named city in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West4
The Adivasi and the undead: From (post)colonial carnage to Necrocene apocalypse in Betaal (2020)3
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 3
Two Ghazals3
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 3
“Do not shoot, I’m a B–b–British object!”: Reading David Malouf in Indian universities2
Digital post/colonial feminism: Poetics and politics of digital literary activism by Arab women2
She – Manasha2
Engagements with hybridity in literature: An introduction2
Post-Arab spring narratives: A minor literature in the making2
Askari, colonial encounters, and postcolonial war commemoration inAfterlivesby Abdulrazak Gurnah2
Literature and the Indian working class: Mridula Koshy in conversation2
“Identify me as [ … ] Manipuri Indigenous nupi maanbi (transwoman)”: A conversation with Santa Khurai about revitalizing Indigenous queer poetry, narrati2
Displaced: Literature of indigeneity, migration, and trauma2
Black British/ British Asian diaspora screen media2
Modernist transitions: Cultural encounters between British and Bangla modernist fiction from 1910s to 1950s2
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, 2
“I wanted to become an Abyssinian”: Rewriting Indro Montanelli’s memories of colonial Africa in Francesca Melandri’s Sangue giusto (2017)2
Marketing stories: Writing with faith and reading in search of spirituality in Elif Shafak’s fiction2
Ramayana: A comparative study of Ramakathas Ramayana: A comparative study of Ramakathas , by A.A. Manavalan, translated and edited by C.T. Indra and Prema Jagannathan, N2
Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature , by Ato Quayson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 334 pp., $46.75 (hardback), ISBN 92
Dear life1
Bangladeshi literature in English: A thrice born tradition1
Thinking-with-others: David Scott, the stance of criticism, and the interview1
Ambiguous territory: Revisiting Damon Galgut’s The Good Doctor1
The migration of roses: Economic allegory and post-Yugoslav disintegration in Zoltán Danyi’s A rózsákról (About the Roses)1
Buried in the desert and lost in the city: Gothic spaces in Egyptian feminist writing1
The Proverse Prize1
State sponsored literature: Britain and cultural diversity after 19451
Imagined community: Chinatown narrative in Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone and Steer Toward Rock1
Metaphysical exile: On J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus fictions Metaphysical exile: On J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus fictions , by Robert Pippin, New York, Oxford University Press, 2021, 141
The poet as victim-survivor: A queer manifesto on gender-based violence1
Spatial boundaries, abounding spaces: Colonial borders in French and francophone literature and film1
“Griffus ou non griffus”: Naming, baptism, and global racialized capitalism in Césaire’s La tragédie du roi Christophe1
Nihilopolitical erasure and resistance of British-born young Muslim women in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire1
Documenting the unarchivable: Minor Detail and the archive of senses1
Mapping the prospect of Bangladeshi writing in English: A conversation with Rashid Askari1
“Making up stories is an inherently political act”: Mohsin Hamid in conversation1
Under postcolonial African skies (excerpts from a ten-poem sequence)1
A tale of literary devices: From trauma to melotrauma in coming-of-age novels of migration from Bosnia and Romania1
Performing the Cold War in the postcolonial world: Theatre, film, literature and things1
Poetics and politics of relationality in contemporary Australian Aboriginal fiction1
Promised lands and paradisiacal gardens in Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story1
Materializing grief: The reclamation of loss in Kamila Shamsie’sHome Fire1
World literature and postcolonial studies1
“Amplifying Black Italian voices”: An interview with Leaticia Ouedraogo1
Making it hot: Eco-militancy and survivance in Helon Habila’s Oil on Water and Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were1
Writing Brexit: Colonial remains Writing Brexit: Colonial remains , edited by Caroline Koegler, Pavan Kumar Malreddy, and Marlena Tronicke, Abingdon, Routledge, 2021, 131
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 1
Fatima Meer, choosing to be defiant: Pictures, paintings and politics1
The interrogation: Interviews at the limit1
The anti-Antigone: Pākehā settler masculinity, racialized kinship, and contested paternity in Carl Nixon’s Settlers’ Creek1
Of pink (and red) paint, Black lives (that matter), and intersectionality in Italy1
Caste pride: Battles for equality in Hindu India1
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, 331
The visceral logics of decolonization1
Live and let live: The Black 007 in No Time To Die1
The secular cleansing that wasn’t: “Vande Mataram” and the expurgated story of Indian nationalism1
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: 91
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 Muk1
Memories of arrival: A voice from the margins1
Reclaiming Arab queerness, debunking white saviors: This Arab is queer, an anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab writers1
African literature as world literature1
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan’s Postcolonial Banter and the paradoxes of spoken-word poetry1
Ambivalence, division, and critique: The collaborator in British Palestinian political thrillers1
Teaching Māori literature as a tauiwi scholar: A German case study1
Vulnerable earth: The literature of climate crisis1
The art of COVID-191
Infection rebellion in Bina Shah’s Before She Sleeps1
The living mountain: A fable for our times1
The Boochani effect: Public feelings and the limits of refugee authorship1
Intersectional environmentalism: Russell C. Leong’s “Azure in Angel City: A Blues Sketch, Part One”1
Decolonizing the memory of the First World War: The poetics and politics of centenary interventions1
The world novel: Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte1
Khwabnama1
Narratives of post-Soviet migration, neo-liberal precarity, and US migration literature1
Green academia: Towards eco-friendly education systems0
The broken promise of infrastructure0
Consciousness and the other: Fragmentation, unselfing, and a contemporary role for the modernist collage interview0
Anthropocene realism: Fiction in the age of climate change0
Varieties of imperial imaginary of the Arctic and the Congo in Lady Franklin of Russell Square and Heart of Darkness0
“Life, please listen. I have some very important things to say”: A conversation with Ambikasutan Mangad0
Colonial coal and peripheral modernity: Shailajananda Mukhopadhyay’sPatalpurias world-ecological literature0
Decolonial hope and planetary solidarity: Fostering sustainability through African life narratives0
Can the Subaltern laugh? Humour, translatability, and the inequalities of World Literature0
Clash of temporalities: Ephemerality and embodied time in Welcome to Our Hillbrow0
Writing the self: Memory, history, and the diasporic Bildungsroman in V.V. Ganeshananthan’s Love Marriage0
Introduction: New vistas of postcolonial discourse0
Writing against colonialism in South African memoir0
Marginlands: Indian landscapes on the brink0
Dalit kotha: The subaltern voice in a Bengali woman’s narratives0
Postcolonial literatures in the local literary marketplace: Located reading0
A publisher’s perspective on diversity: A conversation with Hermione Thompson0
The world in a grain of sand: Postcolonial literature and radical universalism The world in a grain of sand: Postcolonial literature and radical universalism , by Nivedi0
Standing on the Border: 20150
Representations of precarity in South Asian literature in English0
Caribbean literature in transition Caribbean literature in transition, 1800–1920 , Volume 1, edited by Evelyn O’Callaghan and Tim Watson, Cambridge, C0
Entangled futures: Energy production, ecospirituality, and decolonial hope in Indian solarpunk fiction0
Rethinking Muslim narratives: Stereotypes reinforced or contested in recent genre fiction?0
“It was too, too miserable being a child”: Whiteness and the mother–daughter dyad in Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl0
The portrayal of the phenomenon of repellent culture in contemporary Egypt0
O cabelo dela revela: Towards decolonizing Afro Brazilian hair0
A Malaysian ecocriticism reader: Considerations of nature, culture, place, and identities0
Memory, surrogacy and the present absent child: Materiality and erasure in Indian diasporic and Indian fiction about transnational commercial surrogacy0
Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers: Race, Ethics, Narrative Form0
South Asian writers, Latin American literature, and the rise of global English0
Bodies of commerce: Economies of sex in contemporary African women’s writing0
“We were fishermen”: The postnational reimagination of community in Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen0
Colonialism, transnationalism, and anarchism in the south of the Mediterranean0
Aboriginalizing Mother Courage : Brecht in Australia0
“Abhi Toh Main Jawan Hoon” (For I am forever young): Reflections on the agentic cinematic presence of Zohra Sehgal in British Indian films0
Two poems by Nancy Anne Miller0
“It’s sort of everything”: The thingness of diasporic memory in “Demons of the Punjab” (2018) and Ms Marvel (2022)0
Oil fictions: World literature and our contemporary petrosphere0
“You have to survive”: Reading trauma, survival, and adolescent resilience in N.H. Senzai’s contemporary young adult war narrative, Escape from Aleppo0
A City of Cynics0
Towards an intersectional literary criticism: Cross-Identity representations, social location, and Shani Mootoo’s intervention0
Beyond national(ist) binaries: The case of Zia Haider Rahman’s In the Light of What We Know0
Flattening the curse: Cooling down with Zadie Smith’sIntimations0
Misogyny in The Eastern Slope Chronicle: An elegy for diasporic male chauvinism0
“This story is not about immigrants but about refugees”: “Loose Change” by Andrea Levy0
Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India , by Akshya Saxena, Princeton, NJ, Prin0
Speculative fiction as “decolonial option”: Towards a “vulnerable reading” of Ali Mirdrekvandi’s No Heaven for Gunga Din (1965)0
Bifurcated futures: Generic discontinuity and speculative form in the post-2008 African novel0
Still other? Rethinking the centre–periphery dynamics in contemporary eastern European migration literature0
Planting the weathervane: Neo-liberalism, international charity, and the premodern in Anuradha Roy’sSleeping on Jupiter(2015)0
Affect, performativity and Chinese diaspora in the Caribbean: Hopeful futures0
In Memoriam0
Shipwreck narratives: Out of our depth Shipwreck narratives: Out of our depth , by Michael Titlestad, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 229 pp., €49.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0
Introduction: The question of the interview0
The fear of new barbarians: The drama of 9/11 terrorism and its threat on the west in Driss Chraïbi’s L’Homme qui venait du passé0
Narrative performances of mothering in South Asian diasporic fiction0
Deliberative agency: A study in modern African political philosophy Deliberative agency: A study in modern African political philosophy , by Uchenna Okeja, Indiana, Indi0
Angor – Poetry in Hindi/English0
“Golden hour”: Nostalgia and the demise of the Muslim urban space inTwilight in DelhiandSunlight on a Broken Column0
The aqueous form and the Afro–Sino encounter in Yvonne Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea0
Reflections on decoloniality and intersectionality: A conversation with Avtar Brah0
Representing vulnerabilities in contemporary literature0
Quarry noir: Settler anxiety and the politics of mining in contemporary Australian crime fiction0
Narrating horrific refugee experiences in Hassan Blasim’s short fiction0
Antipodean China: Reflections on literary exchange Antipodean China: Reflections on literary exchange , edited by Nicholas Jose and Benjamin Madden, Artarmon, NSW, Giram0
In the name of Destà: Artivism, corporeality, and “postcolonial pathways”0
A conversation with Leila Aboulela0
Robinson Crusoe in the Pacific: REFUGIO by Roger Palmer and the Marxian theory of economic character masks0
Place and replaceability: The geopoetics of biopolitics in Bulgarian migrant-worker novels0
Love and landscape: Decolonial resistance, solidarity, and hope in The God of Small Things0
Narrativizing what cannot be told: The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun as a liminal trauma narrative0
Generative transcription: The interview in post-World War 2 anglophone African literary culture0
Identity, sexuality, and the new African diaspora in the USA: A conversation with Bisi Adjapon0
Vijay Mishra on the archive and two world writers: V.S. Naipaul and Subramani0
“I wanted to show the faces of these migrant workers, their struggles to breathe, and their undignified deaths”: In conversation with Puja Changoiwala0
Literature against fundamentalism0
When the “ gormen ” (government) – walled up the rivers: Reading Sarah Joseph’s Budhini as contemporary Indian hydrofiction0
The Cambridge History of World Literature0
Colonial authority and Tamiḻ scholarship: A study of the first English translations0
“Fully imagined, readable, and amusing”: A retrospective overview of the work of Laura Solomon (1974–2019)0
Indian writings in English at present0
Glocal narratives of resilience0
An equal death: Satyendranath Dutta’s poem on sati and widow remarriage0
The retrospective Raj: Medicine, literature and history after empire0
Life is not useful0
Salman Rushdie and the death of the author0
Correction0
Mediating Aotearoa: Essays on Māori culture0
Between the colonized: Translational seduction and syncretism in Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land0
Afterword: Diaspora as translation0
Identity reclaimed: Re-narrating (hi)story in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account0
From migrant identity to migrant condition: Poetic Polish accounts of westward migration0
Two poems by Kaiser Haq0
Canada’s dual and antithetical roles: An interview with Kit Dobson about We Are Already Ghosts0
From decolonization to destalinization: Aimé Césaire and the “Polish question”0
Women, rememory, and herstory: Reading Hangwoman as a feminist fiction of memory0
Thinking the delirious pandemic governance by numbers with Samit Basu’sChosen Spiritsand Prayaag Akbar’sLeila0
Re-Imagining the Guyanas Re-imagining the Guyanas , edited by Lawrence Aje, Thomas Lacroiz, and Judith Misrahi-Barak,Montpellier, Presses universitaires de la Méditerran0
Black women at war:The Shadow King(2019),Cronache dalla polvere(2019), and intersectional violence in contemporary Italy0
The lost Kashmir: Home, memory, and affect through the material in Agha Shahid Ali’s poetry0
Jewish American writing and world literature: Maybe to millions, maybe to nobody0
Colour Everything0
Wong Phui Nam: Passing of a postcolonial literary pioneer0
The archive of hospitality in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret : A Sufi feminist revision0
A conversation with Timothy Brennan0
J.M. Coetzee in Kakania0
Madness, psychiatry, and empire in postcolonial literature0
Of ties and lies: Ethical disruptions in Oyinkan Braithwaite’sMy Sister the Serial Killer(2018)0
Black British love matters: Asserting the transformative power of love in Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour: Mythical Tales Around the World Retold0
Beyond the “‘recruitable’ narrative”? The fictive portrayal of Pakistani Christians in Nadeem Aslam’s The Golden Legend0
Exclusion, empathy, and Islam: The Runaways in the literary marketplace0
“Our moon has these blood clots, and it is no use hiding them”: In conversation with Rahul Pandita0
Making visible the invisible: Colonial sources and counter body-archives in the boarding schools for Black “mixed race” Italian children in fascist East Africa0
Against straight-forwardness: Literary twists and queer communality in Shani Mootoo’s Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab0
Septopia and the wastialized Other: Allegorizing neo-liberalism in the age of COVID-190
Wole Soyinka: Literature, activism, and African transformation0
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
“For here, we have not an enduring city, but we are looking for the city to come”: Dysgraphia of disaster and wayward Black futures in Jay Bernard’s Surge (2019)0
“Here I’ll stay”: Kaiser Haq’s poems and the impact of being at home0
A Prague text: Reconfiguring marginality in and of Europe0
Letters from Khartoum, D.R. Ewen: Teaching English Literature, Sudan, 1951–19650
Imagining the self in South Asian and African literatures0
Return to innocence? Diaspora screen media and “New Ethnicities” in the moment of diversity0
British culture after empire: Race, decolonisation and migration since 19450
A poetics of parallax: The significant geographies of Derek Walcott’s Omeros (1990)0
Traditional land, postcolonial development, and indigenous ecocriticism in Esther Syiem’s poems0
Therapy for the shock: 19th-century storytelling and post-communist emigration0
Dictators, dictatorship and the African novel: Fictions of the state under neoliberalism0
Interpoetics or the poetics of culture and the culture of poetics in Hannah Lowe, Russell Leong, Marilyn Chin, and Fred Wah0
The racial politics of Afropolitanism and Zukiswa Wanner’s London, Cape Town, Joburg0
Planetary specters: Race, migration, and climate change in the 21st century Planetary specters: Race, migration, and climate change in the 21st century , by Neel Ahuja, 0
Living in dystopia: Fractured identities and COVID-190
The indentured and their route: A relentless quest for identity0
Bangladeshi literature in English: A critical anthology0
Empires of the mind: The colonial past and the politics of the present0
Anti-gypsyism, intergenerational conflict, and intersectional dilemmas in the films of Laura Halilovic0
Mapping identity and place in Yongping Li’s The End of the River0
Global literature and the environment0
Displacing difference, interrupting Indianness: Song sequences in digitally-released Indian-American films0
“False teeth too, eh? … False identity too, eh?”: Postcolonial identifications in Dambudzo Marechera’s The House of Hunger0
“We’re all some sort of shaath ”: Convergence and transversality of minorities in Saleem Haddad’s Guapa0
Reading Malaysian literature in English: ethnicity, gender, diaspora, and nationalism0
African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Nigeria and Kenya0
Threads of vulnerability: Migrant precarity and class-sensitive nostalgia in Wioletta Grzegorzewska’s autofiction0
Michael Ondaatje’sRunning in the Familyand the “familia-graphic” gaze0
Post-postmodernist fiction and the rise of digital epitexts0
Isolated incident Isolated incident , by Mariam Pirbhai, Toronto, Mawenzi House, 2022, 224 pp., $22.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-77415-088-70
(Un)Palatable encounters: Melancholic appetites in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist0
Writing and translating across power differentials: Paratextual (re)framing of three Chinese diasporic narratives0
Panchayat and colonialism in Humayun Kabir’s Men and Rivers0
Decolonial readings: Challenging Eurocentric frames of interpretation in contemporary criticism of Indigenous literatures. The case of Alexis Wright’s Plains of Promise0
“That hateful limit”: Narrative distancing and Palestinian subjectivity in the post-sumudfiction of Adania Shibli0
Ecocritical explorations of the climate crisis: Planetary precarity and future habitability0
Graphic migrations: Precarity and gender in India and the diaspora0
The Afterlife of al-Andalus: Muslim Iberia in Contemporary Arab and Hispanic Narratives The Afterlife of al-Andalus: Muslim Iberia in Contemporary Arab and Hispanic Narratives 0
Writing against expulsion in the post-war world: Making space for the human0
Babu Bangladesh!0
South African London: Writing the metropolis after 1948 South African London: Writing the metropolis after 1948 , by Andrea Thorpe, Manchester, Manchester University Pre0
Cruel optimism and irreparable reading: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai and Nyasha trilogy0
Being there, being here: Palestinian writings in the world0
Science fiction in India: Parallel worlds and postcolonial paradigms0
Weak positions: Olive Schreiner’s elusive politics0
Licencing queerness: An intersectional reading of sexual subalternity, queer utopianism, and law in R. Raj Rao’s Lady Lolita’s Lover0
Into our labours: Work and its representation in world-literary perspective0
Reconfiguration and representation in the literary landscape: Chinese-language literary production in Singapore0
World literature decentered: Beyond the “West” through Turkey, Mexico, and Bengal World literature decentered: Beyond the “West” through Turkey, Mexico, and Bengal , by 0
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