Journal of Postcolonial Writing

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Introduction: Chinese diasporic writing12
The idea of Indian literature: Gender, genre, and comparative method The idea of Indian literature: Gender, genre, and comparative method , by Preetha Mani, Evanston, No7
Rethinking the “postcolonial” in the postcolonial interview6
Introduction: Southeast Asian literatures6
“To dream of a wildness distant from ourselves”: Capitalism, colonialism, and the Robinsonade5
Inheritance of dust: Cartographies of longing5
Of barren lands and broken promises: Writing social change in Kourouma’s Suns of Independence and Allah Is Not Obliged4
South Asian digital humanities: Postcolonial mediations across technology’s cultural Canon4
The poetics of the (un)named city in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West4
“What I really wanted was some rivets, by heaven!” The labours of empire: Work and production in Conrad’s “Youth” and Heart of Darkness3
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
“I wanted to become an Abyssinian”: Rewriting Indro Montanelli’s memories of colonial Africa in Francesca Melandri’s Sangue giusto (2017)3
Robinson Crusoe : After the island3
Two Ghazals3
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, 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
Literature and the Indian working class: Mridula Koshy in conversation3
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
“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
Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature , by Ato Quayson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 334 pp., $46.75 (hardback), ISBN 92
Nihilopolitical erasure and resistance of British-born young Muslim women in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire2
Digital post/colonial feminism: Poetics and politics of digital literary activism by Arab women2
Marketing stories: Writing with faith and reading in search of spirituality in Elif Shafak’s fiction2
Engagements with hybridity in literature: An introduction2
She – Manasha2
The Boochani effect: Public feelings and the limits of refugee authorship2
Breaking the line: Wong May’s postcolonial and exophonic Chinese mobilities2
Modernist transitions: Cultural encounters between British and Bangla modernist fiction from 1910s to 1950s2
Under postcolonial African skies (excerpts from a ten-poem sequence)2
Post-Arab spring narratives: A minor literature in the making2
Black British/ British Asian diaspora screen media2
Narratives of post-Soviet migration, neo-liberal precarity, and US migration literature1
Caste pride: Battles for equality in Hindu India1
The visceral logics of decolonization1
Performing the Cold War in the postcolonial world: Theatre, film, literature and things1
The interrogation: Interviews at the limit1
“Amplifying Black Italian voices”: An interview with Leaticia Ouedraogo1
Thinking-with-others: David Scott, the stance of criticism, and the interview1
Buried in the desert and lost in the city: Gothic spaces in Egyptian feminist writing1
World literature and postcolonial studies1
Ambivalence, division, and critique: The collaborator in British Palestinian political thrillers1
Promised lands and paradisiacal gardens in Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story1
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
Print and the novel in 19th century Kerala: Reconsidering colonial modernity1
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
Khwabnama1
Parallel lives, global actors: Overseas travel in the post-war autobiographical writings of Malay women political figures1
Vulnerable earth: The literature of climate crisis1
Intersectional environmentalism: Russell C. Leong’s “Azure in Angel City: A Blues Sketch, Part One”1
The secular cleansing that wasn’t: “Vande Mataram” and the expurgated story of Indian nationalism1
The poet as victim-survivor: A queer manifesto on gender-based violence1
Mapping the prospect of Bangladeshi writing in English: A conversation with Rashid Askari1
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
Reclaiming Arab queerness, debunking white saviors: This Arab is queer, an anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab writers1
Interviews with guerrilla leaders and military commanders in Latin America, 1959 to the 2000s1
African literature as world literature1
Bangladeshi literature in English: A thrice born tradition1
Memories of arrival: A voice from the margins1
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan’s Postcolonial Banter and the paradoxes of spoken-word poetry1
Contextualizing decolonial hope: Thinking for coexistence and planetary sustainability1
Imagined community: Chinatown narrative in Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone and Steer Toward Rock1
Poetics and politics of relationality in contemporary Australian Aboriginal fiction1
Making it hot: Eco-militancy and survivance in Helon Habila’s Oil on Water and Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were1
Of pink (and red) paint, Black lives (that matter), and intersectionality in Italy1
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
Documenting the unarchivable: Minor Detail and the archive of senses1
A tale of literary devices: From trauma to melotrauma in coming-of-age novels of migration from Bosnia and Romania1
Live and let live: The Black 007 in No Time To Die1
Memory, Akan cosmology, and elementality in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing1
The world novel: Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte1
Decolonizing the memory of the First World War: The poetics and politics of centenary interventions1
Grief has no language1
The living mountain: A fable for our times1
State sponsored literature: Britain and cultural diversity after 19451
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
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
Dear life1
The Proverse Prize1
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
“Making up stories is an inherently political act”: Mohsin Hamid in conversation1
Thanuja: A memoir of migration and transition1
Selected plays of Namita Das: Dalit feminist themes1
Fatima Meer, choosing to be defiant: Pictures, paintings and politics1
Narrating Pakistan: An anthology of contemporary creative writing1
Spatial boundaries, abounding spaces: Colonial borders in French and francophone literature and film1
Writing against expulsion in the post-war world: Making space for the human0
Can the Subaltern laugh? Humour, translatability, and the inequalities of World Literature0
A Prague text: Reconfiguring marginality in and of Europe0
Towards an intersectional literary criticism: Cross-Identity representations, social location, and Shani Mootoo’s intervention0
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
“Here I’ll stay”: Kaiser Haq’s poems and the impact of being at home0
Planting the weathervane: Neo-liberalism, international charity, and the premodern in Anuradha Roy’sSleeping on Jupiter(2015)0
Place and replaceability: The geopoetics of biopolitics in Bulgarian migrant-worker novels0
Speculative fiction as “decolonial option”: Towards a “vulnerable reading” of Ali Mirdrekvandi’s No Heaven for Gunga Din (1965)0
Imagined solidarity in Bernardine Evaristo’s (2019) Girl, Woman, Other0
Literature against fundamentalism0
Quarry noir: Settler anxiety and the politics of mining in contemporary Australian crime fiction0
Weak positions: Olive Schreiner’s elusive politics0
Anthropocene realism: Fiction in the age of climate change0
“Abhi Toh Main Jawan Hoon” (For I am forever young): Reflections on the agentic cinematic presence of Zohra Sehgal in British Indian films0
Writing against colonialism in South African memoir0
Isolated incident Isolated incident , by Mariam Pirbhai, Toronto, Mawenzi House, 2022, 224 pp., $22.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-77415-088-70
Generative transcription: The interview in post-World War 2 anglophone African literary culture0
An alter-native cultural imaginary of Brunei Darussalam in Tina Afiqah’s The Bubble Princess and the Stone Heart0
Deliberative agency: A study in modern African political philosophy Deliberative agency: A study in modern African political philosophy , by Uchenna Okeja, Indiana, Indi0
Critique of Australia’s Bicentennial Moment in John Forbes’s The Stunned Mullet0
Anti-gypsyism, intergenerational conflict, and intersectional dilemmas in the films of Laura Halilovic0
Robinson Crusoe in the Pacific: REFUGIO by Roger Palmer and the Marxian theory of economic character masks0
Indian writings in English at present0
Letters from Khartoum, D.R. Ewen: Teaching English Literature, Sudan, 1951–19650
Between the colonized: Translational seduction and syncretism in Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land0
Aboriginalizing Mother Courage : Brecht in Australia0
Consciousness and the other: Fragmentation, unselfing, and a contemporary role for the modernist collage interview0
Dictators, dictatorship and the African novel: Fictions of the state under neoliberalism0
Beyond national(ist) binaries: The case of Zia Haider Rahman’s In the Light of What We Know0
An equal death: Satyendranath Dutta’s poem on sati and widow remarriage0
The retrospective Raj: Medicine, literature and history after empire0
Making visible the invisible: Colonial sources and counter body-archives in the boarding schools for Black “mixed race” Italian children in fascist East Africa0
Green academia: Towards eco-friendly education systems0
Bifurcated futures: Generic discontinuity and speculative form in the post-2008 African novel0
Vestiges of the national allegory: Fanonian dialogue and silence in Achmat Dangor’s Bitter Fruit0
“I wanted to show the faces of these migrant workers, their struggles to breathe, and their undignified deaths”: In conversation with Puja Changoiwala0
Being there, being here: Palestinian writings in the world0
Caribbean literature in transition Caribbean literature in transition, 1800–1920 , Volume 1, edited by Evelyn O’Callaghan and Tim Watson, Cambridge, C0
Decolonial hope and planetary solidarity: Fostering sustainability through African life narratives0
Panchayat and colonialism in Humayun Kabir’s Men and Rivers0
Representations of precarity in South Asian literature in English0
Black women at war:The Shadow King(2019),Cronache dalla polvere(2019), and intersectional violence in contemporary Italy0
Refugee fiction as world-literature: Rethinking registration in the contemporary refugee novel0
Science fiction in India: Parallel worlds and postcolonial paradigms0
Against straight-forwardness: Literary twists and queer communality in Shani Mootoo’s Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab0
In Memoriam0
The broken promise of infrastructure0
The story behind the stories: An interview with Kevin Jared Hosein0
“Golden hour”: Nostalgia and the demise of the Muslim urban space inTwilight in DelhiandSunlight on a Broken Column0
Interpoetics or the poetics of culture and the culture of poetics in Hannah Lowe, Russell Leong, Marilyn Chin, and Fred Wah0
Correction0
Narrating horrific refugee experiences in Hassan Blasim’s short fiction0
Representing vulnerabilities in contemporary literature0
Marginlands: Indian landscapes on the brink0
“Life, please listen. I have some very important things to say”: A conversation with Ambikasutan Mangad0
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
Still other? Rethinking the centre–periphery dynamics in contemporary eastern European migration literature0
Oil fictions: World literature and our contemporary petrosphere0
Decolonial readings: Challenging Eurocentric frames of interpretation in contemporary criticism of Indigenous literatures. The case of Alexis Wright’s Plains of Promise0
Re-Imagining the Guyanas Re-imagining the Guyanas , edited by Lawrence Aje, Thomas Lacroiz, and Judith Misrahi-Barak,Montpellier, Presses universitaires de la Méditerran0
Beyond diaspora: Multi-scalar belonging and the remaking of home in Indra Bahadur Rai’s short stories0
Therapy for the shock: 19th-century storytelling and post-communist emigration0
Cruel optimism and irreparable reading: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai and Nyasha trilogy0
Identity, sexuality, and the new African diaspora in the USA: A conversation with Bisi Adjapon0
Wong Phui Nam: Passing of a postcolonial literary pioneer0
“This grief not only ours to bear”: Hope in shalan joudry’s Km+tkinu ( Homeland )0
The empire of letters0
Exclusion, empathy, and Islam: The Runaways in the literary marketplace0
The Routledge companion to literature of the U.S. South0
Ecocritical explorations of the climate crisis: Planetary precarity and future habitability0
Narrativizing what cannot be told: The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun as a liminal trauma narrative0
“Fully imagined, readable, and amusing”: A retrospective overview of the work of Laura Solomon (1974–2019)0
Wole Soyinka: Literature, activism, and African transformation0
Madness, psychiatry, and empire in postcolonial literature0
The lost Kashmir: Home, memory, and affect through the material in Agha Shahid Ali’s poetry0
Displacing difference, interrupting Indianness: Song sequences in digitally-released Indian-American films0
Salman Rushdie and the death of the author0
British culture after empire: Race, decolonisation and migration since 19450
Two poems by Nancy Anne Miller0
Vijay Mishra on the archive and two world writers: V.S. Naipaul and Subramani0
Colonial authority and Tamiḻ scholarship: A study of the first English translations0
Canada’s dual and antithetical roles: An interview with Kit Dobson about We Are Already Ghosts0
Into our labours: Work and its representation in world-literary perspective0
Reconfiguration and representation in the literary landscape: Chinese-language literary production in Singapore0
A publisher’s perspective on diversity: A conversation with Hermione Thompson0
A City of Cynics0
Hopegoing: Animist metaphor as deferred hope in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing0
The archive of hospitality in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret : A Sufi feminist revision0
Colonial coal and peripheral modernity: Shailajananda Mukhopadhyay’sPatalpurias world-ecological literature0
In the name of Destà: Artivism, corporeality, and “postcolonial pathways”0
Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers: Race, Ethics, Narrative Form0
Black British love matters: Asserting the transformative power of love in Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour: Mythical Tales Around the World Retold0
The Cambridge History of World Literature0
World literature decentered: Beyond the “West” through Turkey, Mexico, and Bengal World literature decentered: Beyond the “West” through Turkey, Mexico, and Bengal , by 0
“It was too, too miserable being a child”: Whiteness and the mother–daughter dyad in Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl0
South Asian writers, Latin American literature, and the rise of global English0
Fantasizing maternal infanticide: Negotiation of cultural hybridity and motherhood in Chinese American literature0
O cabelo dela revela: Towards decolonizing Afro Brazilian hair0
The weight of unwritten light: a challenge to the global archive0
“Our moon has these blood clots, and it is no use hiding them”: In conversation with Rahul Pandita0
(Un)Palatable encounters: Melancholic appetites in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist0
Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India , by Akshya Saxena, Princeton, NJ, Prin0
Countering capitalist ethics: Ecological empathy, hope, and environmental education in Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass0
Beyond the “‘recruitable’ narrative”? The fictive portrayal of Pakistani Christians in Nadeem Aslam’s The Golden Legend0
To hope or to weep? Slow hope in Rohan Chakravarty’s green humour series0
A Malaysian ecocriticism reader: Considerations of nature, culture, place, and identities0
Postcolonial literatures in the local literary marketplace: Located reading0
“It’s sort of everything”: The thingness of diasporic memory in “Demons of the Punjab” (2018) and Ms Marvel (2022)0
Introduction: The question of the interview0
Licencing queerness: An intersectional reading of sexual subalternity, queer utopianism, and law in R. Raj Rao’s Lady Lolita’s Lover0
The indentured and their route: A relentless quest for identity0
“We were fishermen”: The postnational reimagination of community in Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen0
Writing the self: Memory, history, and the diasporic Bildungsroman in V.V. Ganeshananthan’s Love Marriage0
Graphic migrations: Precarity and gender in India and the diaspora0
Return to innocence? Diaspora screen media and “New Ethnicities” in the moment of diversity0
Standing on the Border: 20150
A conversation with Leila Aboulela0
J.M. Coetzee in Kakania0
Angor – Poetry in Hindi/English0
When the “ gormen ” (government) – walled up the rivers: Reading Sarah Joseph’s Budhini as contemporary Indian hydrofiction0
Imagining the self in South Asian and African literatures0
Rethinking Muslim narratives: Stereotypes reinforced or contested in recent genre fiction?0
“That hateful limit”: Narrative distancing and Palestinian subjectivity in the post-sumudfiction of Adania Shibli0
From decolonization to destalinization: Aimé Césaire and the “Polish question”0
From migrant identity to migrant condition: Poetic Polish accounts of westward migration0
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
Love and landscape: Decolonial resistance, solidarity, and hope in The God of Small Things0
Clash of temporalities: Ephemerality and embodied time in Welcome to Our Hillbrow0
South African London: Writing the metropolis after 1948 South African London: Writing the metropolis after 1948 , by Andrea Thorpe, Manchester, Manchester University Pre0
Antipodean China: Reflections on literary exchange Antipodean China: Reflections on literary exchange , edited by Nicholas Jose and Benjamin Madden, Artarmon, NSW, Giram0
Misogyny in The Eastern Slope Chronicle: An elegy for diasporic male chauvinism0
“We’re all some sort of shaath ”: Convergence and transversality of minorities in Saleem Haddad’s Guapa0
Dalit kotha: The subaltern voice in a Bengali woman’s narratives0
Two poems by Kaiser Haq0
Traditional land, postcolonial development, and indigenous ecocriticism in Esther Syiem’s poems0
Entangled futures: Energy production, ecospirituality, and decolonial hope in Indian solarpunk fiction0
Identity reclaimed: Re-narrating (hi)story in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account0
The aqueous form and the Afro–Sino encounter in Yvonne Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea0
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
The racial politics of Afropolitanism and Zukiswa Wanner’s London, Cape Town, Joburg0
Of ties and lies: Ethical disruptions in Oyinkan Braithwaite’sMy Sister the Serial Killer(2018)0
Women, rememory, and herstory: Reading Hangwoman as a feminist fiction of memory0
Affect, performativity and Chinese diaspora in the Caribbean: Hopeful futures0
Introduction: New vistas of postcolonial discourse0
They called it peace: Worlds of imperial violence0
Mapping identity and place in Yongping Li’s The End of the River0
Writing and translating across power differentials: Paratextual (re)framing of three Chinese diasporic narratives0
Bangladeshi literature in English: A critical anthology0
A conversation with Timothy Brennan0
Narrative performances of mothering in South Asian diasporic fiction0
Reading Malaysian literature in English: ethnicity, gender, diaspora, and nationalism0
The portrayal of the phenomenon of repellent culture in contemporary Egypt0
Narrating the post-Oslo predicament: Temporal liminality in Palestinian life-writings0
Varieties of imperial imaginary of the Arctic and the Congo in Lady Franklin of Russell Square and Heart of Darkness0
Reflections on decoloniality and intersectionality: A conversation with Avtar Brah0
Modernity, print and sahitya: The making of a new literary culture, 1866–19190
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
Mediating Aotearoa: Essays on Māori culture0
“Let us tend this garden together”: Postcolonial time travel in Ng Yi-Sheng’s “Garden”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
Fictive incoherence in Cynthia Dewi Oka’s A Tinderbox in Three Acts : A poetic accounting with the 1965–66 Indonesian massacres0
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