Journal of Postcolonial Writing

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We should all be radical feminists: A review of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s contribution to literature and feminism	6
Nostalgia, identity, and homeland: Reading the narratives of the diaspora in Susan Abulhawa’s fiction	5
“Making up stories is an inherently political act”: Mohsin Hamid in conversation	4
Liminal diasporas in the era of COVID-19	3
“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
Neutralizing English: Han Suyin and the language politics of Third World literature	3
Interracial relations and the post-postcolonial future in Zen Cho’s Spirits Abroad	3
Necropolitics in a post-apocalyptic zombie diaspora: The case of AMC’sThe Walking Dead	3
Living in dystopia: Fractured identities and COVID-19	3
Imagining the European periphery: Post-war Croatia in Aminatta Forna’sThe Hired Man	3
Neoliberal extraction and aquatic resistance in Helon Habila’sOil on Water	2
“I feel I am a man and a free man too”: Palawa voices and the ethics of representation in contemporary Tasmanian fiction	2
Storying ourselves: Black Consciousness thought and adolescent agency in 21st-century Africa	2
Infection rebellion in Bina Shah’s Before She Sleeps	2
The art of COVID-19	2
“Leave to quit boundaries”: Danger, precarity, and queer diasporas in the South Asian Caribbean	2
Place and the postcolonial poetry of Nigeria	2
Madness and psychiatry in K. Sello Duiker’s The Quiet Violence of Dreams	2
On not writing back: Cosmopolitan paradoxes in new diasporic Malaysian writing today	2
Diffractive spaces: An analysis of Malaysian cyberpunk	2
Askari, colonial encounters, and postcolonial war commemoration inAfterlivesby Abdulrazak Gurnah	2
Thinking the delirious pandemic governance by numbers with Samit Basu’sChosen Spiritsand Prayaag Akbar’sLeila	2
Clandestine crossings: Narrating Zimbabwe’s precarious diaspora in South Africa in Sue Nyathi’sThe Gold-Diggers(2018)	2
“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)	2

The experience of homecoming in Teju Cole’sEvery Day Is for the Thief: An investigation into theothered“cosmopolitan stranger”	2
Picturing precarity: Diasporic belonging and camp life in Leila Abdelrazaq’s Baddawi	2
Narrating horrific refugee experiences in Hassan Blasim’s short fiction	2
Dalit Lekhika: Women’s writings from Bengal	1
“Abhi Toh Main Jawan Hoon” (For I am forever young): Reflections on the agentic cinematic presence of Zohra Sehgal in British Indian films	1
Reading Salman Rushdie: The self the nation, and the world	1
The poetics of the (un)named city in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West	1
Can the Subaltern laugh? Humour, translatability, and the inequalities of World Literature	1
Robinson Crusoe : After the island	1
Michael Ondaatje’sRunning in the Familyand the “familia-graphic” gaze	1
The postcolonial millennium: New directions in Malaysian literature in English	1
Radical hopefulness in Mohsin Hamid’s map of the world: A reading of Exit West (2017)	1
Australian literature and its institutionalization in the offshore playground	1
Panchayat and colonialism in Humayun Kabir’s Men and Rivers	1
“Space Probe”: Science fiction across the Black Atlantic. The speculative geographies of Amiri Baraka and Emmanuel Dongala	1
Greening White	1
Introduction: Secularism and the literary marketplace	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
“You know that I’m different from them”: Performing national identity in Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud’s The Corsair	1
From Oodgeroo Noonuccal to Alexis Wright: Postcolonial reading of Australian Indigenous literature in China, 1988–2018	1
Fragmentations, phantom limbs, re-memberings: Negotiating bodies, representation, and subjectivity in Caribbean British writing	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
“Do not shoot, I’m a B–b–British object!”: Reading David Malouf in Indian universities	1
Han Suyin’s Cold War fictions: Life-writing, intimacy, and decolonization	1
“I believe there are as many motherhoods as there are mothers”: In conversation with Jerry Pinto	1
Entangled peripheries: Spatial agency in Jackie Kay’sTrumpetand Caryl Phillips’sThe Lost Child	1
Writing an(Other) Europe: Challenging peripheries in Chika Unigwe’s fiction on Belgium	1
On the periphery: Contemporary exile fiction and Hungary	1
“That hateful limit”: Narrative distancing and Palestinian subjectivity in the post-sumudfiction of Adania Shibli	1
Stories as “med-sins”: Lee Maracle’sRavensongandCelia’s Song	1
China, Malaysia, and millennial diasporic identity in Tash Aw’s The Face and Five Star Billionaire	1
“The right to narrate”: Gazans contest popular geopolitics with film	1
Wong Phui Nam: Passing of a postcolonial literary pioneer	1
Inventing reality: Obstinate Orientalism in Victor Segalen’s René Leys	1
Through an observer’s eyes: A conversation with author Siddhartha Gigoo	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
Object as subject: Material agency in Ismat Chughtai’s “The Quilt” and “Chhoti Apa”	1
Why Australia? Inquiries and possibilities in the United States	1
The ritual in the roadblock film: The wedding and the birthday in post-Oslo Palestinian Cinema	1
Reading the world anew: Zapatista stories, the denial of singularity, and the creation of a plural world	1
Challenges and possibilities in the translation of Dalit literature: An interview with Susheela Punitha	1
“Griffus ou non griffus”: Naming, baptism, and global racialized capitalism in Césaire’s La tragédie du roi Christophe	1
Transnational re-memorialization in Preeta Samarasan’s Evening Is the Whole Day	1
Bangladeshi literature in English: A thrice born tradition	1
“We tick: Other” – race, religion, and literary solidarities in three essay anthologies and the neo-liberal marketplace	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
Decolonizing the museum: Leila Aboulela’s “The Museum”	1
“Kin-fused” revenge: Rewriting the canon and settler belonging in Leah Purcell’sThe Drover’s Wife	1

Khwabnama	1
Universalism and the Malaysian anglophone novel: Exploring inequality, migrancy, and class in Tash Aw’s We, the Survivors	1
Jeanine Leane’s counter-reading of Australian historical and cultural memory locally and internationally	1
A sun in ambush, 2021: Reading Han Suyin today	1
Monsters within Hong Kong’s “cesspool of iniquity”: Kowloon Walled City and Temutma (1998)	1
Teaching Australia and Japan through Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North	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
(Un)Palatable encounters: Melancholic appetites in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist	1
Beyond the “‘recruitable’ narrative”? The fictive portrayal of Pakistani Christians in Nadeem Aslam’s The Golden Legend	1
European peripheries in the postcolonial literary imagination	1
Materializing grief: The reclamation of loss in Kamila Shamsie’sHome Fire	1
The anti-Antigone: Pākehā settler masculinity, racialized kinship, and contested paternity in Carl Nixon’s Settlers’ Creek	1
“Home is a place in time”: Fractals and chronotopes in the poetry of Safia Elhillo	1
Writing against colonialism in South African memoir	1
Robinson Crusoe in the Pacific: REFUGIO by Roger Palmer and the Marxian theory of economic character masks	1
Rethinking the victim: Gender and violence in contemporary Australian women’s writing	0
A Prague text: Reconfiguring marginality in and of Europe	0
Culture and the literary: Matter, metaphor, memory Culture and the literary: Matter, metaphor, memory , by Avishek Parui, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2022, 234	0
The broken promise of infrastructure	0
Introduction: The question of the interview	0
Performing the Cold War in the postcolonial world: Theatre, film, literature and things Performing the Cold War in the postcolonial world: Theatre, film, literature and things	0
The disposition of nature: Environmental crisis and world literature	0
The outlandishness of Han Suyin with particular reference to My House Has Two Doors	0
Literature and the Indian working class: Mridula Koshy in conversation	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
Sanity at the mercy of language: Interpreting the “nonsense” of a Chinese miner in Australia	0
Mobilities and Mediterranean peripheries: Narrating Maltese identities in Vincent Vella’sSlippery Steps	0
Intersectional activism on social media: Anti-racist and feminist strategies in the digital space	0
“I have tried to take readers upon a journey that they would rather not go on”: An interview with Manjula Padmanabhan	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
“Jack and Johnny went up the hill”: Emergent homonationalism and the construction of a palatable queer subject in post-Section 377 Bollywood cinema	0
Adventure comics and youth cultures in India	0
The Fall of Melaka	0
Of pink (and red) paint, Black lives (that matter), and intersectionality in Italy	0
Tormented visibility: Extremism, stigma, and staging resistance in Omar El-Khairy and Nadia Latif’sHomegrown	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
Histories of dirt: Media and urban life in colonial and postcolonial Lagos	0
Allegories of the Anthropocene	0
Remembering the Indian Mutiny: Colonial nostalgia in Zadie Smith’sWhite Teeth	0
Dialect, voice, and identity in Chinese translation: A descriptive study of Chinese translations of Huckleberry Finn, Tess , and Pygmalion	0
Malayan Chinese women in a time of war: Gender, narration, and subversion in Han Suyin’s And the Rain My Drink	0
Clash of temporalities: Ephemerality and embodied time in Welcome to Our Hillbrow	0
Towards an intersectional literary criticism: Cross-Identity representations, social location, and Shani Mootoo’s intervention	0
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, N	0
Jewish American writing and world literature: Maybe to millions, maybe to nobody	0
Angor – Poetry in Hindi/English	0
Literary cultures and twenty-first-century childhoods	0
Planting the weathervane: Neo-liberalism, international charity, and the premodern in Anuradha Roy’sSleeping on Jupiter(2015)	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
Life is not useful	0
Moving archives, touch, and world literary melancholy in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian	0
Intersectional environmentalism: Russell C. Leong’s “Azure in Angel City: A Blues Sketch, Part One”	0
Cosmopolitanism and strange encounters in George Elliott Clarke’sThe Motorcyclist	0
Indigestible performances: Women, punk, and the limits of British multiculturalism in Nida Mazoor’s We Are Lady Parts	0
Graphic migrations: Precarity and gender in India and the diaspora	0
Women, rememory, and herstory: Reading Hangwoman as a feminist fiction of memory	0
Writing and reading Zimbabwe in the global literary market: A case of four novelists	0
Marketing stories: Writing with faith and reading in search of spirituality in Elif Shafak’s fiction	0
Live and let live: The Black 007 in No Time To Die	0
Speculative fiction as “decolonial option”: Towards a “vulnerable reading” of Ali Mirdrekvandi’s No Heaven for Gunga Din (1965)	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
Shaping translingual writing and translation as intersectional practices: Nadeesha Uyangoda’s L’unica persona nera nella stanza and Sulla razza as case studies	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
Rethinking the “postcolonial” in the postcolonial interview	0
The Cambridge history of black and Asian British writing	0
Displaced: Literature of indigeneity, migration, and trauma	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
Afghanistan under siege: The Afghan body and the postcolonial border	0
Memoirs of African farms: Land, settlement, and belonging in white life writing from Southern Africa	0
Interviews with guerrilla leaders and military commanders in Latin America, 1959 to the 2000s	0
Exclusion, empathy, and Islam: The Runaways in the literary marketplace	0
Islam and gender: major issues and debates	0
Generative transcription: The interview in post-World War 2 anglophone African literary culture	0
Two Ghazals	0
East of Delhi: Multilingual literary culture and world literature	0
Patriarchy in practice: Ethnographies by everyday masculinities	0
Interrupted narratives and intersectional representations in Italian postcolonial literature Interrupted narratives and intersectional representations in Italian postcolonial literature	0
Arun Kolatkar’s Bhijakī Vahī: Sacrifice and residues	0
Imagined community: Chinatown narrative in Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone and Steer Toward Rock	0
“I wanted to become an Abyssinian”: Rewriting Indro Montanelli’s memories of colonial Africa in Francesca Melandri’s Sangue giusto (2017)	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
A portrait of white progressivism: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah	0
A Sonnet after Empire	0
Poetics and politics of shame in English literature	0
Politics and poetics of (de)colonization in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift (2019)	0
“Musée de l’absence” and “Postcolonial flâneuse”	0
Yes-colonialism: The European dream	0
The death of a tropical neurasthenic in George Orwell’s Burmese Days	0
The Adivasi and the undead: From (post)colonial carnage to Necrocene apocalypse in Betaal (2020)	0
Pandemic: Invisibility and silence	0
The author as cannibal: Rewriting in francophone literature as a postcolonial genre, 1969–1995 The author as cannibal: Rewriting in francophone literature as a postcolonial genre, 1969–	0
Black South African autobiography after Deleuze: Belonging and becoming in self-testimony	0
Writer as translator: Cultural translation in Han Suyin’sA Many-Splendoured Thing	0
Our freedoms: Essays and stories from India’s best writers	0
Representations of precarity in South Asian literature in English Representations of precarity in South Asian literature in English , edited by Om Prakash Dwivedi, Cham,	0
Flattening the curse: Cooling down with Zadie Smith’sIntimations	0
Colour Everything	0
Teaching Māori literature as a tauiwi scholar: A German case study	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
A conversation with Timothy Brennan	0
Insurgent imaginations: World literature and the periphery	0
Criminality and power in the postcolonial city: Mapping the mean streets of Mumbai and Naples	0
The Proverse Prize	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
Rethinking Muslim narratives: Stereotypes reinforced or contested in recent genre fiction?	0
The aqueous form and the Afro–Sino encounter in Yvonne Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea	0
“Our moon has these blood clots, and it is no use hiding them”: In conversation with Rahul Pandita	0
Introduction: Chinese diasporic writing	0
Transnational narratives in Englishes of exile	0
Global revolutionary aesthetics and politics after ’68 Global revolutionary aesthetics and politics after ’68 , edited by Martin Munro, William J. Cloonan, Barry J. Faul	0
Mobilizing the past:The God of Small Things’ automotive ecologies	0
Melancholy acts: Defeat and cultural critique in the Arab world Melancholy acts: Defeat and cultural critique in the Arab world , by Nouri Gana, New York, Fordham Univer	0
“Golden hour”: Nostalgia and the demise of the Muslim urban space inTwilight in DelhiandSunlight on a Broken Column	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
“This story is not about immigrants but about refugees”: “Loose Change” by Andrea Levy	0
The Finley Confession	0
A dissenting voice: The politics of Han Suyin’s literary activities in late colonial and postcolonial Malaya and Singapore	0
Postcolonial literatures in the local literary marketplace: Located reading	0
The interrogation: Interviews at the limit	0
The secular cleansing that wasn’t: “Vande Mataram” and the expurgated story of Indian nationalism	0
What survives is the singing	0
Queering tribal folktales from East and Northeast India	0
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan’s Postcolonial Banter and the paradoxes of spoken-word poetry	0
Green academia: Towards eco-friendly education systems Green academia: Towards eco-friendly education systems , by Sayan Dey, London and New York, Routledge, 2023, 118 p	0
The world novel: Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte Quichotte , by Salman Rushdie, London, Jonathan Cape, 2019, 393 pp., £20.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781787331914	0
Theory as a way of life: Sissako, filmmaking, and the postcolonial interview	0
Satire and community in the time of COVID-19: An analysis of Ernest Ng’s Covidball Z	0
Creative lives: Interviews with contemporary South-Asian diaspora writers	0
Strasbourg, the crossroads and the borderline: Poetics of heterotopia in contemporary literature	0
From decolonization to destalinization: Aimé Césaire and the “Polish question”	0
When the “ gormen ” (government) – walled up the rivers: Reading Sarah Joseph’s Budhini as contemporary Indian hydrofiction	0
“Real queens fix each other’s crowns”: The interiorities of Black (British) girlhood in Rocks (2019)	0
Tagore, nationalism and cosmopolitanism: Perceptions, contestations and contemporary relevance Tagore, nationalism and cosmopolitanism: Perceptions, contestations and contemporary relev	0
Standing on the Border: 2015	0
“Life, please listen. I have some very important things to say”: A conversation with Ambikasutan Mangad	0
Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India , by Akshya Saxena, Princeton, NJ, Prin	0
National literature in multinational states	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
In search of Africa(s): universalism and decolonial thought	0
Finding the “way back”: Displacement and the imaginings of home in Niq Mhlongo’s Way Back Home	0
“Yahoo-yahoos and Twitter kweens”: Internet technologies in contemporary Nigerian fiction	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
Debating the Afropolitan	0
Colonialism, transnationalism, and anarchism in the south of the Mediterranean	0
Creative radicalism: Culture and the Arab left after the uprising	0
Decolonising English studies from the semi-periphery Decolonising English studies from the semi-periphery , by Ana Cristina Mendes, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan	0
Literatures of liberation: Non-European universalisms and democratic progress,	0
Digital post/colonial feminism: Poetics and politics of digital literary activism by Arab women	0
In memoriam – Patrick Wolfe (1949–2016)1	0
Science fiction in India: Parallel worlds and postcolonial paradigms Science fiction in India: Parallel worlds and postcolonial paradigms , edited by Shweta Khilnani and	0
South Asian digital humanities: Postcolonial mediations across technology’s cultural Canon	0
Dictators, dictatorship and the African novel: Fictions of the state under neoliberalism	0
The Passport CV	0
“To dream of a wildness distant from ourselves”: Capitalism, colonialism, and the Robinsonade	0
Black British/ British Asian diaspora screen media	0
World literature and postcolonial studies	0
Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion and Terror, 1817–2020	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
An agent’s view on diversity, secularism and religion: A conversation with Rukhsana Yasmin	0
“Intersectional perspectives and youthful trauma”: (Re)considering Gauri in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland	0
“Politics of racism” and BrexLit: Questioning the racially labelled entities in Ali Smith’s Autumn	0
Interpoetics or the poetics of culture and the culture of poetics in Hannah Lowe, Russell Leong, Marilyn Chin, and Fred Wah	0
Editor’s note	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
Documenting the unarchivable: Minor Detail and the archive of senses	0
Babu Bangladesh!	0
The transcontinental Maghreb: francophone literature across the Mediterranean	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
The living mountain: A fable for our times	0
Misogyny in The Eastern Slope Chronicle: An elegy for diasporic male chauvinism	0
“I don’t want to be a tourist in my own country”: An interview with Michelle de Kretser	0
A century of encounters: Writing the other in Arab North Africa	0
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 passé	0
Thinking-with-others: David Scott, the stance of criticism, and the interview	0
Diaspora & returns in fiction	0