Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 48, Issue 4 (2012)

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Editors’ note

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Editors’ note
Melanie A. Murray & Fiona Tolan
Pages: 341-343
Published online: 12 Jul 2012
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Articles

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Publishing Wole Soyinka: Oxford University Press and the creation of “Africa’s own William Shakespeare”
Caroline Davis
Pages: 344-358
Published online: 20 Oct 2011
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Controlling deviant wives: Marriage and justice in the early Ghanaian novel
Helen Yitah & Kari Dako
Pages: 359-370
Published online: 10 Nov 2011
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A weak utopianism of postcolonial nationalist Bildung: Re-reading Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Hugh Charles O’Connell
Pages: 371-383
Published online: 07 Jul 2011
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The uses of racial melancholia in colonial education: Reading Ourika and Saleh: A Prince of Malaya as cautionary tales
Adeline Koh
Pages: 384-395
Published online: 06 Oct 2011
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Possessed by whiteness: Interracial affiliations and racial melancholia in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Delphine Munos
Pages: 396-405
Published online: 16 Nov 2011
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Blonde Roots, black history: History and the form of the slave narrative in Bernardine Evaristo’s Blonde Roots
Katharine Burkitt
Pages: 406-417
Published online: 20 Oct 2011
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Literature is language: An interview with Amara Lakhous
Claudia Esposito
Pages: 418-430
Published online: 16 Mar 2011
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Reflections on a National Cartography: The Freedom to Roam and the Right to Imagine in Raja Shehadeh’s Travel Writing
Charlotta Salmi
Pages: 431-442
Published online: 16 Nov 2011
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Review Essay

Book Review
Varieties of Indian literature
Bruce King
Pages: 443-448
Published online: 10 May 2012
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Review

Book Review
Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D’Aguiar: Representations of slavery
Ole Birk Laursen
Pages: 449-450
Published online: 13 Dec 2011
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Katherine Mansfield and literary modernism
Lydia Wevers
Pages: 450-451
Published online: 24 Jan 2012
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Celebrating Katherine Mansfield: a centenary volume of essays
Patricia Moran
Pages: 451-453
Published online: 10 Feb 2012
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Book Review
Empires in world history: power and the politics of difference
Dominic Alessio
Pages: 453-454
Published online: 24 Apr 2012
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Travel writing
Robert Spencer
Pages: 454-456
Published online: 13 Feb 2012
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Book Review
Questioning hybridity, postcolonialism and globalization
Jade Munslow Ong
Pages: 456-457
Published online: 24 Apr 2012
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Book Review
Postcolonial literary studies: the first 30 years
Louise Sheridan
Pages: 457-459
Published online: 25 Apr 2012
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Book Review
The Frame function: an inside-out guide to the novels of Janet Frame
Jennifer Lawn
Pages: 459-460
Published online: 07 Jun 2012
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Book Review
Race and antiracism in black British and British Asian literature
Bénédicte Ledent
Pages: 460-461
Published online: 07 Jun 2012
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Book Review
The nation writ small: African fictions and feminisms, 1958-1988
Annie Gagiano
Pages: 461-463
Published online: 07 Jun 2012
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Corrigendum

Article
CORRIGENDUM
Adeline Koh
Page: 464
Published online: 03 May 2012
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