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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Insurgent imaginations: World literature and the periphery6
Jewish American writing and world literature: Maybe to millions, maybe to nobody4
Malayan Chinese women in a time of war: Gender, narration, and subversion in Han Suyin’s And the Rain My Drink3
Black South African autobiography after Deleuze: Belonging and becoming in self-testimony3
Colour Everything3
Literatures of liberation: Non-European universalisms and democratic progress,3
South Asian digital humanities: Postcolonial mediations across technology’s cultural Canon3
Debt/law/realism: Nigerian writers imagine the state at independence Debt/law/realism: Nigerian writers imagine the state at independence , by Neil ten Kortenaar, Montre2
Post-postmodernist fiction and the rise of digital epitexts2
Mobilities and Mediterranean peripheries: Narrating Maltese identities in Vincent Vella’sSlippery Steps2
Tagore, nationalism and cosmopolitanism: Perceptions, contestations and contemporary relevance Tagore, nationalism and cosmopolitanism: Perceptions, contestations and contemporary relev2
Adventure comics and youth cultures in India2
South African London: Writing the metropolis after 1948 South African London: Writing the metropolis after 1948 , by Andrea Thorpe, Manchester, Manchester University Pre2
Through an observer’s eyes: A conversation with author Siddhartha Gigoo2
Strategic auto-exoticism: Camara Laye’s L’Enfant noir (1953) and Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood (1994)2
Satire and community in the time of COVID-19: An analysis of Ernest Ng’s Covidball Z2
The death of a tropical neurasthenic in George Orwell’s Burmese Days2
Contemporary Pakistani speculative fiction and the global imaginary: Democratizing human futures2
“Space Probe”: Science fiction across the Black Atlantic. The speculative geographies of Amiri Baraka and Emmanuel Dongala2
A Sonnet after Empire2
Teaching Australia and Japan through Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North2
When the “ gormen ” (government) – walled up the rivers: Reading Sarah Joseph’s Budhini as contemporary Indian hydrofiction1
Wong Phui Nam: Passing of a postcolonial literary pioneer1
“Musée de l’absence” and “Postcolonial flâneuse”1
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
“Politics of racism” and BrexLit: Questioning the racially labelled entities in Ali Smith’s Autumn1
“To dream of a wildness distant from ourselves”: Capitalism, colonialism, and the Robinsonade1
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
In memoriam – Patrick Wolfe (1949–2016)11
The living mountain: A fable for our times1
Of pink (and red) paint, Black lives (that matter), and intersectionality in Italy1
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 passé1
Towards an intersectional literary criticism: Cross-Identity representations, social location, and Shani Mootoo’s intervention1
East of Delhi: Multilingual literary culture and world literature1
Introduction: Chinese diasporic writing1
Interrupted narratives and intersectional representations in Italian postcolonial literature1
Babu Bangladesh!1
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
Speculative fiction as “decolonial option”: Towards a “vulnerable reading” of Ali Mirdrekvandi’s No Heaven for Gunga Din (1965)1
Representations of precarity in South Asian literature in English1
Exclusion, empathy, and Islam: The Runaways in the literary marketplace1
Memoirs of African farms: Land, settlement, and belonging in white life writing from Southern Africa1
“Abhi Toh Main Jawan Hoon” (For I am forever young): Reflections on the agentic cinematic presence of Zohra Sehgal in British Indian films1
Writing an(Other) Europe: Challenging peripheries in Chika Unigwe’s fiction on Belgium1
Cruel optimism and irreparable reading: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai and Nyasha trilogy1
Planting the weathervane: Neo-liberalism, international charity, and the premodern in Anuradha Roy’sSleeping on Jupiter(2015)1
Graphic migrations: Precarity and gender in India and the diaspora1
“What I really wanted was some rivets, by heaven!” The labours of empire: Work and production in Conrad’s “Youth” and Heart of Darkness1
Documenting the unarchivable: Minor Detail and the archive of senses1
Creative radicalism: Culture and the Arab left after the uprising1
Rethinking the “postcolonial” in the postcolonial interview1
Re-Imagining the Guyanas Re-imagining the Guyanas , edited by Lawrence Aje, Thomas Lacroiz, and Judith Misrahi-Barak,Montpellier, Presses universitaires de la Méditerran1
The world novel: Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte Quichotte , by Salman Rushdie, London, Jonathan Cape, 2019, 393 pp., £20.00 (hardback), ISBN 97817873319141
“That hateful limit”: Narrative distancing and Palestinian subjectivity in the post-sumudfiction of Adania Shibli1
“I believe there are as many motherhoods as there are mothers”: In conversation with Jerry Pinto1
Interpoetics or the poetics of culture and the culture of poetics in Hannah Lowe, Russell Leong, Marilyn Chin, and Fred Wah1
Finding the “way back”: Displacement and the imaginings of home in Niq Mhlongo’s Way Back Home1
Universalism and the Malaysian anglophone novel: Exploring inequality, migrancy, and class in Tash Aw’s We, the Survivors1
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, Londo1
A sun in ambush, 2021: Reading Han Suyin today1
The poetics of the (un)named city in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West1
Australian literature and its institutionalization in the offshore playground1
Performing the Cold War in the postcolonial world: Theatre, film, literature and things1
Intersectional environmentalism: Russell C. Leong’s “Azure in Angel City: A Blues Sketch, Part One”1
Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India , by Akshya Saxena, Princeton, NJ, Prin1
Robinson Crusoe : After the island1
Place and the postcolonial poetry of Nigeria1
Remembering the Indian Mutiny: Colonial nostalgia in Zadie Smith’sWhite Teeth1
“This story is not about immigrants but about refugees”: “Loose Change” by Andrea Levy1
Pandemic: Invisibility and silence1
The interrogation: Interviews at the limit1
“Kin-fused” revenge: Rewriting the canon and settler belonging in Leah Purcell’sThe Drover’s Wife1
The broken promise of infrastructure1
China, Malaysia, and millennial diasporic identity in Tash Aw’s The Face and Five Star Billionaire1
Mobilizing the past:The God of Small Things’ automotive ecologies1
Women, rememory, and herstory: Reading Hangwoman as a feminist fiction of memory1
The idea of Indian literature: Gender, genre, and comparative method The idea of Indian literature: Gender, genre, and comparative method , by Preetha Mani, Evanston, No1
The postcolonial millennium: New directions in Malaysian literature in English1
“Ghostly revenants”: The soundscape of pain and memory in Afghan American fiction1
Diaspora & returns in fiction1
Live and let live: The Black 007 in No Time To Die1
Interrogating eco-literature and sustainable development: Theory, text, and practice0
Literature and the war on terror: Nation, democracy and liberalisation0
Frantz Fanon: alienation and freedom0
Introduction: New vistas of postcolonial discourse0
Han Suyin’s translation philosophies in the context of Mainland China since the 1950s0
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
“We tick: Other” – race, religion, and literary solidarities in three essay anthologies and the neo-liberal marketplace0
Being there, being here: Palestinian writings in the world0
Majuli0
Indian writings in English at present Nameste Trump & other stories , by Tabish Khair, Massachusetts, Interink Publishing, 2023, 256 pp., $17.00 (paperback), ISBN 970
Spectres from the past: Slavery and the politics of history in West African and African-American literature0
Names of the women0
Return to innocence? Diaspora screen media and “New Ethnicities” in the moment of diversity0
Under postcolonial African skies (excerpts from a ten-poem sequence)0
The Power of Names; Missing Nyonya Poster0
Trauma and transformation in African literature0
Postcolonial automobility: car culture in West Africa0
Literatures of liberalisation: Global circulation and the long nineteenth century0
Oil fictions: World literature and our contemporary petrosphere0
Han Suyin and error: Decolonization, knowledge, and literary subjectivity0
Refugee fiction as world-literature: Rethinking registration in the contemporary refugee novel0
Bangladeshi literature in English: A critical anthology0
Writing Brexit: Colonial remains Writing Brexit: Colonial remains , edited by Caroline Koegler, Pavan Kumar Malreddy, and Marlena Tronicke, Abingdon, Routledge, 2021, 130
Soma: Poems by A. K. Ramanujan0
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, 140
Two London fires and a critique of grievability: Mournful protest, the Black elegy, and Jay Bernard’s Surge (2019)0
“Two normative orders”: Time, the body, and memory in Okey Ndibe’s Foreign Gods, Inc.0
Malaysian literature in English: A critical companion0
Marketing secular anxieties: Mohsin Hamid’s planetary turn0
The Cambridge History of World Literature0
“It’s sort of everything”: The thingness of diasporic memory in “Demons of the Punjab” (2018) and Ms Marvel (2022)0
An equal death: Satyendranath Dutta’s poem on sati and widow remarriage0
The flavours of mixing: Postcolonial literary representations of cooking as a feminine mode of creolization0
State sponsored literature: Britain and cultural diversity after 19450
Emergency politics and the middlebrow novel: A comparative analysis of Han Suyin’s… and the Rain my Drinkand Mary McMinnies’sThe Flying Fox0
The anti-Antigone: Pākehā settler masculinity, racialized kinship, and contested paternity in Carl Nixon’s Settlers’ Creek0
Delving beneath the surface: An interview with Monica Ali0
Materializing grief: The reclamation of loss in Kamila Shamsie’sHome Fire0
Buried in the desert and lost in the city: Gothic spaces in Egyptian feminist writing0
“Blood mist blurs my vision”: Six poems by Sukanta Bhattacharya0
Representing vulnerabilities in contemporary literature0
“You have to survive”: Reading trauma, survival, and adolescent resilience in N.H. Senzai’s contemporary young adult war narrative, Escape from Aleppo0
The retrospective Raj: Medicine, literature and history after empire0
Caribbean literature in transition Caribbean literature in transition, 1800–1920 , Volume 1, edited by Evelyn O’Callaghan and Tim Watson, Cambridge, C0
Tributes to Derek Walcott, 1930–2017: In various light Tributes to Derek Walcott, 1930–2017: In various light , edited by Helen Goethals and Eric Doumerc, Cambridge, Cam0
Neutralizing English: Han Suyin and the language politics of Third World literature0
Fatima Meer, choosing to be defiant: Pictures, paintings and politics0
Bifurcated futures: Generic discontinuity and speculative form in the post-2008 African novel0
A City of Cynics0
Han Suyin’s Cold War fictions: Life-writing, intimacy, and decolonization0
Letters from Khartoum, D.R. Ewen: Teaching English Literature, Sudan, 1951–19650
Between modernity and modernism: Reading affect in Muktibodh’s translated poetry0
Justice and human rights in the African imagination: We, too, are humans0
Post-Arab spring narratives: A minor literature in the making0
Aboriginalizing Mother Courage : Brecht in Australia0
Transnational re-memorialization in Preeta Samarasan’s Evening Is the Whole Day0
Imagining the self in South Asian and African literatures0
Funny Boy , postmemorial potentialities, and the queer diasporic Sri Lankan novel0
Leila Aboulela, Islam, and the trajectory of the African novel0
Why indigenous literatures matter0
“I wanted to show the faces of these migrant workers, their struggles to breathe, and their undignified deaths”: In conversation with Puja Changoiwala0
Antipodean China: Reflections on literary exchange Antipodean China: Reflections on literary exchange , edited by Nicholas Jose and Benjamin Madden, Artarmon, NSW, Giram0
Han Suyin: The little voice of decolonizing Asia0
The environmental apocalypse: Interdisciplinary reflections on the climate crisis0
The contested city: Speculative fiction and metropolitan imagination in colonial Bengal0
O cabelo dela revela: Towards decolonizing Afro Brazilian hair0
Colonial coal and peripheral modernity: Shailajananda Mukhopadhyay’sPatalpurias world-ecological literature0
(Un)Palatable encounters: Melancholic appetites in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist0
Ishtyle: Accenting gay Indian nightlife0
Consider the whale0
The secular cleansing that wasn’t: “Vande Mataram” and the expurgated story of Indian nationalism0
Storying ourselves: Black Consciousness thought and adolescent agency in 21st-century Africa0
Black British love matters: Asserting the transformative power of love in Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour: Mythical Tales Around the World Retold0
Editors’ note0
Displacing difference, interrupting Indianness: Song sequences in digitally-released Indian-American films0
Politicising world literature: Egypt, between pedagogy and the public0
Entangled family histories of the South Asian diaspora: The Partition of India as generational memory in Anjali Enjeti’s The Parted Earth (2021)0
Hindutva as Political Monotheism Hindutva as Political Monotheism , by Anustup Basu, Durham, Duke University Press, 2020, 296 pp., $27.95 (paperback), ISBN 97814780109440
Ambivalence, division, and critique: The collaborator in British Palestinian political thrillers0
American trickster: Trauma, tradition and Brer Rabbit0
Glocal narratives of resilience0
African literary imaginaries and critiques of global capitalism0
The Cambridge history of world literature (2 vols) The Cambridge history of world literature (2 vols) , edited by Debjani Ganguly, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,0
The rise (in the fall) of Cochin: Provincializing metropolitan spatiality in Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh0
Southeast Asia as a decolonial method of storytelling and epistemic intervention: A reading of Joshua Kam’s How the Man in Green Saved Pahang, and Possibly the World (200
Postcolonial social dramas in European provincial towns: Frank Westerman’s literary journalism0
Two poems by Kaiser Haq0
African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Nigeria and Kenya0
Challenges and possibilities in the translation of Dalit literature: An interview with Susheela Punitha0
FromPecore neretoFuture: Anthologizing intersectional Blackness in contemporary Italy0
Of ties and lies: Ethical disruptions in Oyinkan Braithwaite’sMy Sister the Serial Killer(2018)0
“Amplifying Black Italian voices”: An interview with Leaticia Ouedraogo0
In the name of Destà: Artivism, corporeality, and “postcolonial pathways”0
The legacy of Angélique in late 20th-century Black Canadian drama0
Mapping identity and place in Yongping Li’s The End of the River0
Why Australia? Inquiries and possibilities in the United States0
Hyphenational poetics in Omar Musa’sParangandMillefiori0
“We’re all some sort of shaath ”: Convergence and transversality of minorities in Saleem Haddad’s Guapa0
Smoke and ashes: A writer’s journey through opium’s hidden histories0
Afterword: Diaspora as translation0
Correction0
Empires of the mind: The colonial past and the politics of the present0
Intergenerational trauma and complex implication in Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King (2019)0
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
Traditional land, postcolonial development, and indigenous ecocriticism in Esther Syiem’s poems0
Poetics and politics of relationality in contemporary Australian Aboriginal fiction0
Writing against colonialism in South African memoir0
On literature, society, sexualities: An interview with the writer Vasudhendra0
Madness and psychiatry in K. Sello Duiker’s The Quiet Violence of Dreams0
Hong Kong echoes across English ghost lands: A decolonizing of English-language poetry0
Marginlands: Indian landscapes on the brink0
Reading Salman Rushdie: The self the nation, and the world0
Mapping modernisms: art, indigeneity, colonialism0
Spatial boundaries, abounding spaces: Colonial borders in French and francophone literature and film0
The importance of self-definition: An interview with Djarah Kan0
The intersections of illness and literature in the Ottoman Empire: Figuring Émile Zola and syphilis in Halide Edib’sMev’ut Hüküm0
Five worlds from the man in the blue T-shirt: Interview with Russell C. Leong0
Epitaph by her grave0
The global novel and capitalism in crisis: contemporary literary narratives0
“Make way poet, jaywalking”: Play and irony in Arun Kolatkar’s work0
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
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance; Standing With Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement0
Sensitive reading: The pleasures of South Asian literature in translation0
Dalit Lekhika: Women’s writings from Bengal0
The challenge of interviewing Middle East leaders: A first-hand story of my encounters with dictators and dissidents0
Green unpleasant land: Creative responses to rural England’s colonial connections0
Introduction: Secularism and the literary marketplace0
The seven moons of Maali Almeida The seven moons of Maali Almeida , by Shehan Karunatilaka, Gurugram, Haryana, Penguin Random House India, 2022, 400 pp., ₹399 (paperback0
Temporary marriage in Iran: Gender and body politics in modern Iranian film and literature0
We should all be radical feminists: A review of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s contribution to literature and feminism0
Afroeuropean peripheral mobilities in francophone African literatures0
African literature as world literature0
“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
Homing in: Dom Moraes and the felt community of the dissociated in India0
Critical lives: Rabindranath Tagore0
Caste pride: Battles for equality in Hindu India0
Narrativizing what cannot be told: The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun as a liminal trauma narrative0
The longevity of a poem is what counts: An interview with Menka Shivdasani0
Queer Pacific mobilities: Translocal bodies in the poetry of Dan Taulapapa McMullin0
Remembering the ways of the water: Transoceanic memory in anglophone literature0
Beyond national(ist) binaries: The case of Zia Haider Rahman’s In the Light of What We Know0
Reading Malaysian literature in English: ethnicity, gender, diaspora, and nationalism0
Dark, Almost Nightby Joanna Bator as a (hi)story of the peripheral European city of Wałbrzych/Waldenburg0
Introduction: Robinson Crusoe, Karl Marx and the critique of colonial violence0
Reconfiguration and representation in the literary landscape: Chinese-language literary production in Singapore0
Mobility in contemporary Zimbabwean literature in English: Crossing borders, transcending boundaries Mobility in contemporary Zimbabwean literature in English: Crossing borders, transce0
From Oodgeroo Noonuccal to Alexis Wright: Postcolonial reading of Australian Indigenous literature in China, 1988–20180
On not writing back: Cosmopolitan paradoxes in new diasporic Malaysian writing today0
“I feel I am a man and a free man too”: Palawa voices and the ethics of representation in contemporary Tasmanian fiction0
Black women at war:The Shadow King(2019),Cronache dalla polvere(2019), and intersectional violence in contemporary Italy0
Mediating Aotearoa: Essays on Māori culture0
Toxic grace? Tahmima Anam’sThe Bones of Graceand the pollution trade0
The short story after apartheid: Thinking with form in South African literature0
The voice of diversity: Picture brides and masked individuality in Julie Otsuka’sThe Buddha in the Attic0
Czech translations and receptions of contemporary Australian fiction0
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
Building resilience in Lawrence Hill’s The Illegal0
Clandestine crossings: Narrating Zimbabwe’s precarious diaspora in South Africa in Sue Nyathi’sThe Gold-Diggers(2018)0
A transnational vision of The King and I : On American culture and policy in David Henry Hwang’s Soft Power0
The archive of hospitality in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret : A Sufi feminist revision0
The Kashmiri Pandits’ 1990s exodus: An interview with Siddhartha Gigoo0
Entangled peripheries: Spatial agency in Jackie Kay’sTrumpetand Caryl Phillips’sThe Lost Child0
Fragmentations, phantom limbs, re-memberings: Negotiating bodies, representation, and subjectivity in Caribbean British writing0
The racial politics of Afropolitanism and Zukiswa Wanner’s London, Cape Town, Joburg0
South Asian writers, Latin American literature, and the rise of global English0
Consciousness and the other: Fragmentation, unselfing, and a contemporary role for the modernist collage interview0
New northern voices: Black British writing and the devolving politics of prize culture0
A publisher’s perspective on diversity: A conversation with Hermione Thompson0
Two poems by Nancy Anne Miller0
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