Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 44, Issue 4 (2008)

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Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 44, Issue 4 (2008)

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Editorials

Editorial
Editors' note
Janet Wilson & Lucienne Loh
Pages: 319-320
Published online: 10 Nov 2008
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Original Articles

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City, identity and dystopia: Writing Lagos in contemporary Nigerian novels
Rita Nnodim
Pages: 321-332
Published online: 10 Nov 2008
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Ivan Vladislavić and the possible city
James Graham
Pages: 333-344
Published online: 10 Nov 2008
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City of sieges: Literature, communal violence and urban space
Bede Scott
Pages: 345-354
Published online: 10 Nov 2008
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After Tantura/after Auschwitz: Trauma, postcoloniality and the (un)writing of the Nakbah in the documentary film Paradise Lost
Jamil Khader
Pages: 355-365
Published online: 10 Nov 2008
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The subaltern, the text and the critic: Reading Phoolan Devi
Anuradha Ramanujan
Pages: 367-378
Published online: 10 Nov 2008
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An “onerous citizenship”: Globalization, cultural flows and the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Hari Kunzru's Transmission
Richard Brock
Pages: 379-390
Published online: 10 Nov 2008
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Home and the nation: Women, citizenship and transnational migration in postcolonial literature
Kavita Daiya
Pages: 391-402
Published online: 10 Nov 2008
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“The other is the neighbour”: The limits of dignity in Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore
David Farrier
Pages: 403-413
Published online: 10 Nov 2008
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“Uncouth sounds” of resistance: Conradian tropes and hybrid epistemologies in Pauline Melville’s The Ventriloquist’s Tale
Véronique Bragard
Pages: 415-425
Published online: 10 Nov 2008
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Humour and the defamiliarization of whiteness in the short fiction of Australian indigenous writer Alf Taylor
Anne Brewster
Pages: 427-438
Published online: 10 Nov 2008
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Miscellany

Poetry
Les Murray & Dalpat Chauhan Translated by Nilufer E. Bharucha
Pages: 439-440
Published online: 10 Nov 2008
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Reviews
Dieter Riemenschneider, Bruce King, Paul Sharrad, John McLaren, Dominic Alessio, Fiona Tolan, Amrit Biswas & Michael Mitchell
Pages: 441-451
Published online: 10 Nov 2008
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