Journal of Postcolonial Writing

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“What I really wanted was some rivets, by heaven!” The labours of empire: Work and production in Conrad’s “Youth” and Heart of Darkness	6
Introduction: Chinese diasporic writing	4
“Do not shoot, I’m a B–b–British object!”: Reading David Malouf in Indian universities	3
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	3
The poetics of the (un)named city in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West	3
Marketing stories: Writing with faith and reading in search of spirituality in Elif Shafak’s fiction	3
Teaching Australia and Japan through Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North	3
“To dream of a wildness distant from ourselves”: Capitalism, colonialism, and the Robinsonade	3
Rethinking the “postcolonial” in the postcolonial interview	3
South Asian digital humanities: Postcolonial mediations across technology’s cultural Canon	3
Robinson Crusoe : After the island	3
Two Ghazals	2
Digital post/colonial feminism: Poetics and politics of digital literary activism by Arab women	2
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	2
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	2
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	2
Askari, colonial encounters, and postcolonial war commemoration inAfterlivesby Abdulrazak Gurnah	2
Debating the Afropolitan	2
Modernist transitions: Cultural encounters between British and Bangla modernist fiction from 1910s to 1950s	2
Literature and the Indian working class: Mridula Koshy in conversation	2
“I wanted to become an Abyssinian”: Rewriting Indro Montanelli’s memories of colonial Africa in Francesca Melandri’s Sangue giusto (2017)	2
The Adivasi and the undead: From (post)colonial carnage to Necrocene apocalypse in Betaal (2020)	2
Displaced: Literature of indigeneity, migration, and trauma	2
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
“The right to narrate”: Gazans contest popular geopolitics with film	1

Materializing grief: The reclamation of loss in Kamila Shamsie’sHome Fire	1
Memories of arrival: A voice from the margins	1
The anti-Antigone: Pākehā settler masculinity, racialized kinship, and contested paternity in Carl Nixon’s Settlers’ Creek	1
Imagined community: Chinatown narrative in Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone and Steer Toward Rock	1
Fatima Meer, choosing to be defiant: Pictures, paintings and politics	1
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan’s Postcolonial Banter and the paradoxes of spoken-word poetry	1
Buried in the desert and lost in the city: Gothic spaces in Egyptian feminist writing	1
“Making up stories is an inherently political act”: Mohsin Hamid in conversation	1
Consider the whale	1
The art of COVID-19	1
Khwabnama	1
Documenting the unarchivable: Minor Detail and the archive of senses	1
China, Malaysia, and millennial diasporic identity in Tash Aw’s The Face and Five Star Billionaire	1
Caste pride: Battles for equality in Hindu India	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 Muk	1
Infection rebellion in Bina Shah’s Before She Sleeps	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: 9	1
The Boochani effect: Public feelings and the limits of refugee authorship	1
Writing Brexit: Colonial remains Writing Brexit: Colonial remains , edited by Caroline Koegler, Pavan Kumar Malreddy, and Marlena Tronicke, Abingdon, Routledge, 2021, 13	1
Of pink (and red) paint, Black lives (that matter), and intersectionality in Italy	1
European peripheries in the postcolonial literary imagination	1
Malaysian literature in English: A critical companion	1
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
State sponsored literature: Britain and cultural diversity after 1945	1
Reclaiming Arab queerness, debunking white saviors: This Arab is queer, an anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab writers	1
Ambivalence, division, and critique: The collaborator in British Palestinian political thrillers	1
The living mountain: A fable for our times	1
Spatial boundaries, abounding spaces: Colonial borders in French and francophone literature and film	1
Live and let live: The Black 007 in No Time To Die	1
Intersectional environmentalism: Russell C. Leong’s “Azure in Angel City: A Blues Sketch, Part One”	1
Post-Arab spring narratives: A minor literature in the making	1
Ambiguous territory: Revisiting Damon Galgut’s The Good Doctor	1
Under postcolonial African skies (excerpts from a ten-poem sequence)	1
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	1
She – Manasha	1
Black British/ British Asian diaspora screen media	1
On not writing back: Cosmopolitan paradoxes in new diasporic Malaysian writing today	1
Poetics and politics of relationality in contemporary Australian Aboriginal fiction	1
Why indigenous literatures matter	1
Teaching Māori literature as a tauiwi scholar: A German case study	1
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, 14	1
“Griffus ou non griffus”: Naming, baptism, and global racialized capitalism in Césaire’s La tragédie du roi Christophe	1
“Amplifying Black Italian voices”: An interview with Leaticia Ouedraogo	1
The Proverse Prize	1
Nihilopolitical erasure and resistance of British-born young Muslim women in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire	1
The interrogation: Interviews at the limit	1
Mapping the prospect of Bangladeshi writing in English: A conversation with Rashid Askari	1
African literature as world literature	1
The world novel: Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte Quichotte , by Salman Rushdie, London, Jonathan Cape, 2019, 393 pp., £20.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781787331914	1
The secular cleansing that wasn’t: “Vande Mataram” and the expurgated story of Indian nationalism	1

Black South African autobiography after Deleuze: Belonging and becoming in self-testimony	1
The visceral logics of decolonization	1
Performing the Cold War in the postcolonial world: Theatre, film, literature and things	1
Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature , by Ato Quayson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 334 pp., $46.75 (hardback), ISBN 9	1
Isolated incident Isolated incident , by Mariam Pirbhai, Toronto, Mawenzi House, 2022, 224 pp., $22.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-77415-088-7	0
Reading Malaysian literature in English: ethnicity, gender, diaspora, and nationalism	0
Black British love matters: Asserting the transformative power of love in Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour: Mythical Tales Around the World Retold	0
Varieties of imperial imaginary of the Arctic and the Congo in Lady Franklin of Russell Square and Heart of Darkness	0
Caribbean literature in transition Caribbean literature in transition, 1800–1920 , Volume 1, edited by Evelyn O’Callaghan and Tim Watson, Cambridge, C	0
Return to innocence? Diaspora screen media and “New Ethnicities” in the moment of diversity	0
The retrospective Raj: Medicine, literature and history after empire	0
Dark, Almost Nightby Joanna Bator as a (hi)story of the peripheral European city of Wałbrzych/Waldenburg	0
Septopia and the wastialized Other: Allegorizing neo-liberalism in the age of COVID-19	0
Refugee fiction as world-literature: Rethinking registration in the contemporary refugee novel	0
Imagining the self in South Asian and African literatures	0
Living in dystopia: Fractured identities and COVID-19	0
Babu Bangladesh!	0
Bodies of commerce: Economies of sex in contemporary African women’s writing	0
Introduction: The question of the interview	0
“It’s sort of everything”: The thingness of diasporic memory in “Demons of the Punjab” (2018) and Ms Marvel (2022)	0
“It was too, too miserable being a child”: Whiteness and the mother–daughter dyad in Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl	0
“We’re all some sort of shaath ”: Convergence and transversality of minorities in Saleem Haddad’s Guapa	0
Jewish American writing and world literature: Maybe to millions, maybe to nobody	0
The Power of Names; Missing Nyonya Poster	0
The aqueous form and the Afro–Sino encounter in Yvonne Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea	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
“Abhi Toh Main Jawan Hoon” (For I am forever young): Reflections on the agentic cinematic presence of Zohra Sehgal in British Indian films	0
Literatures of liberalisation: Global circulation and the long nineteenth century	0
Australian literature and its institutionalization in the offshore playground	0
Reconfiguration and representation in the literary landscape: Chinese-language literary production in Singapore	0
Rethinking Muslim narratives: Stereotypes reinforced or contested in recent genre fiction?	0
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
“That hateful limit”: Narrative distancing and Palestinian subjectivity in the post-sumudfiction of Adania Shibli	0
Bifurcated futures: Generic discontinuity and speculative form in the post-2008 African novel	0
Two poems by Kaiser Haq	0
Panchayat and colonialism in Humayun Kabir’s Men and Rivers	0
We should all be radical feminists: A review of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s contribution to literature and feminism	0
Universalism and the Malaysian anglophone novel: Exploring inequality, migrancy, and class in Tash Aw’s We, the Survivors	0
Diaspora & returns in fiction	0
Temporary marriage in Iran: Gender and body politics in modern Iranian film and literature	0
Misogyny in The Eastern Slope Chronicle: An elegy for diasporic male chauvinism	0
Green academia: Towards eco-friendly education systems	0
Colour Everything	0
Representing vulnerabilities in contemporary literature	0
Hyphenational poetics in Omar Musa’sParangandMillefiori	0
Science fiction in India: Parallel worlds and postcolonial paradigms	0
Generative transcription: The interview in post-World War 2 anglophone African literary culture	0
Place and the postcolonial poetry of Nigeria	0
A publisher’s perspective on diversity: A conversation with Hermione Thompson	0
A Prague text: Reconfiguring marginality in and of Europe	0
Weak positions: Olive Schreiner’s elusive politics	0
A century of encounters: Writing the other in Arab North Africa	0
Traditional land, postcolonial development, and indigenous ecocriticism in Esther Syiem’s poems	0
Decolonial hope and planetary solidarity: Fostering sustainability through African life narratives	0
The postcolonial millennium: New directions in Malaysian literature in English	0
Our freedoms: Essays and stories from India’s best writers	0
Introduction: New vistas of postcolonial discourse	0
Editors’ note	0
(Un)Palatable encounters: Melancholic appetites in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist	0
The broken promise of infrastructure	0
American trickster: Trauma, tradition and Brer Rabbit	0
Frantz Fanon: alienation and freedom	0
World literature in motion: Institution, recognition, location	0
A City of Cynics	0
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
Michael Ondaatje’sRunning in the Familyand the “familia-graphic” gaze	0
The Cambridge History of World Literature	0
Displacing difference, interrupting Indianness: Song sequences in digitally-released Indian-American films	0
Women, rememory, and herstory: Reading Hangwoman as a feminist fiction of memory	0
“You have to survive”: Reading trauma, survival, and adolescent resilience in N.H. Senzai’s contemporary young adult war narrative, Escape from Aleppo	0
A conversation with Leila Aboulela	0
An equal death: Satyendranath Dutta’s poem on sati and widow remarriage	0
Afroeuropean peripheral mobilities in francophone African literatures	0
Making visible the invisible: Colonial sources and counter body-archives in the boarding schools for Black “mixed race” Italian children in fascist East Africa	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
Habitus and productive shame in Life & Times of Michael K	0
“Here I’ll stay”: Kaiser Haq’s poems and the impact of being at home	0
Salman Rushdie and the death of the author	0
Names of the women	0
Cruel optimism and irreparable reading: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai and Nyasha trilogy	0

Consciousness and the other: Fragmentation, unselfing, and a contemporary role for the modernist collage interview	0
Speculative fiction as “decolonial option”: Towards a “vulnerable reading” of Ali Mirdrekvandi’s No Heaven for Gunga Din (1965)	0
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
Deliberative agency: A study in modern African political philosophy Deliberative agency: A study in modern African political philosophy , by Uchenna Okeja, Indiana, Indi	0
“I wanted to show the faces of these migrant workers, their struggles to breathe, and their undignified deaths”: In conversation with Puja Changoiwala	0
Representations of precarity in South Asian literature in English	0
Robinson Crusoe in the Pacific: REFUGIO by Roger Palmer and the Marxian theory of economic character masks	0
A Sonnet after Empire	0
Black women at war:The Shadow King(2019),Cronache dalla polvere(2019), and intersectional violence in contemporary Italy	0
The lost Kashmir: Home, memory, and affect through the material in Agha Shahid Ali’s poetry	0
Oil fictions: World literature and our contemporary petrosphere	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
The archive of hospitality in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret : A Sufi feminist revision	0
Aboriginalizing Mother Courage : Brecht in Australia	0
“Life, please listen. I have some very important things to say”: A conversation with Ambikasutan Mangad	0
“This story is not about immigrants but about refugees”: “Loose Change” by Andrea Levy	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
The ritual in the roadblock film: The wedding and the birthday in post-Oslo Palestinian Cinema	0
Beyond national(ist) binaries: The case of Zia Haider Rahman’s In the Light of What We Know	0
A conversation with Timothy Brennan	0
Allegories of the Anthropocene	0
Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India , by Akshya Saxena, Princeton, NJ, Prin	0
Colonial coal and peripheral modernity: Shailajananda Mukhopadhyay’sPatalpurias world-ecological literature	0
Two poems by Nancy Anne Miller	0
Beyond the “‘recruitable’ narrative”? The fictive portrayal of Pakistani Christians in Nadeem Aslam’s The Golden Legend	0
Thinking the delirious pandemic governance by numbers with Samit Basu’sChosen Spiritsand Prayaag Akbar’sLeila	0
“Our moon has these blood clots, and it is no use hiding them”: In conversation with Rahul Pandita	0
Antipodean China: Reflections on literary exchange Antipodean China: Reflections on literary exchange , edited by Nicholas Jose and Benjamin Madden, Artarmon, NSW, Giram	0
Toxic grace? Tahmima Anam’sThe Bones of Graceand the pollution trade	0
Into our labours: Work and its representation in world-literary perspective	0
Postcolonial literatures in the local literary marketplace: Located reading	0
Letters from Khartoum, D.R. Ewen: Teaching English Literature, Sudan, 1951–1965	0
Marginlands: Indian landscapes on the brink	0
Critical lives: Rabindranath Tagore	0
From decolonization to destalinization: Aimé Césaire and the “Polish question”	0
Clandestine crossings: Narrating Zimbabwe’s precarious diaspora in South Africa in Sue Nyathi’sThe Gold-Diggers(2018)	0
Narrativizing what cannot be told: The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun as a liminal trauma narrative	0
sand; the dancers	0
A Malaysian ecocriticism reader: Considerations of nature, culture, place, and identities	0
Narrating horrific refugee experiences in Hassan Blasim’s short fiction	0
“Golden hour”: Nostalgia and the demise of the Muslim urban space inTwilight in DelhiandSunlight on a Broken Column	0
Bangladeshi literature in English: A critical anthology	0
Writing against colonialism in South African memoir	0
Mapping identity and place in Yongping Li’s The End of the River	0
Transnational re-memorialization in Preeta Samarasan’s Evening Is the Whole Day	0
In the name of Destà: Artivism, corporeality, and “postcolonial pathways”	0
O cabelo dela revela: Towards decolonizing Afro Brazilian hair	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 Nivedi	0
Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers: Race, Ethics, Narrative Form	0
South Asian writers, Latin American literature, and the rise of global English	0
Empires of the mind: The colonial past and the politics of the present	0
Translation in diasporic literatures	0
Clash of temporalities: Ephemerality and embodied time in Welcome to Our Hillbrow	0
Indian writings in English at present Nameste Trump & other stories , by Tabish Khair, Massachusetts, Interink Publishing, 2023, 256 pp., $17.00 (paperback), ISBN 97	0
Anti-gypsyism, intergenerational conflict, and intersectional dilemmas in the films of Laura Halilovic	0
Towards an intersectional literary criticism: Cross-Identity representations, social location, and Shani Mootoo’s intervention	0
The short story after apartheid: Thinking with form in South African literature	0
Dictators, dictatorship and the African novel: Fictions of the state under neoliberalism	0
Glocal narratives of resilience	0
When the “ gormen ” (government) – walled up the rivers: Reading Sarah Joseph’s Budhini as contemporary Indian hydrofiction	0
“Fully imagined, readable, and amusing”: A retrospective overview of the work of Laura Solomon (1974–2019)	0
Wong Phui Nam: Passing of a postcolonial literary pioneer	0
Mediating Aotearoa: Essays on Māori culture	0
Standing on the Border: 2015	0
“We were fishermen”: The postnational reimagination of community in Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen	0
Planting the weathervane: Neo-liberalism, international charity, and the premodern in Anuradha Roy’sSleeping on Jupiter(2015)	0
Politicising world literature: Egypt, between pedagogy and the public	0
Postcolonial automobility: car culture in West Africa	0
Flattening the curse: Cooling down with Zadie Smith’sIntimations	0
Writing the self: Memory, history, and the diasporic Bildungsroman in V.V. Ganeshananthan’s Love Marriage	0
Adventure comics and youth cultures in India	0
Interpoetics or the poetics of culture and the culture of poetics in Hannah Lowe, Russell Leong, Marilyn Chin, and Fred Wah	0
Correction	0
Angor – Poetry in Hindi/English	0
Strasbourg, the crossroads and the borderline: Poetics of heterotopia in contemporary literature	0
Literatures of liberation: Non-European universalisms and democratic progress,	0
Dalit kotha: The subaltern voice in a Bengali woman’s narratives	0
African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Nigeria and Kenya	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
Dalit Lekhika: Women’s writings from Bengal	0
Being there, being here: Palestinian writings in the world	0
Postcolonial social dramas in European provincial towns: Frank Westerman’s literary journalism	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 Movement	0
British culture after empire: Race, decolonisation and migration since 1945	0
Licencing queerness: An intersectional reading of sexual subalternity, queer utopianism, and law in R. Raj Rao’s Lady Lolita’s Lover	0
The racial politics of Afropolitanism and Zukiswa Wanner’s London, Cape Town, Joburg	0
Identity, sexuality, and the new African diaspora in the USA: A conversation with Bisi Adjapon	0
Graphic migrations: Precarity and gender in India and the diaspora	0
A poetics of parallax: The significant geographies of Derek Walcott’s Omeros (1990)	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
Can the Subaltern laugh? Humour, translatability, and the inequalities of World Literature	0
Of ties and lies: Ethical disruptions in Oyinkan Braithwaite’sMy Sister the Serial Killer(2018)	0
Imagining the European periphery: Post-war Croatia in Aminatta Forna’sThe Hired Man	0
The intersections of illness and literature in the Ottoman Empire: Figuring Émile Zola and syphilis in Halide Edib’sMev’ut Hüküm	0
Ishtyle: Accenting gay Indian nightlife	0