Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 49, Issue 1 (2013)

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Editors’ note

Editorial
Editors' note
Larissa Allwork & Janet Wilson
Pages: 1-3
Published online: 12 Dec 2012
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Reading between the “posts”: Systemic violence and the trope of hybridity in the postcolonial novel
John Hyland
Pages: 4-15
Published online: 24 Jan 2012
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Humour in exile: The subversive effects of laughter in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Gisèle Pineau’s L’Exil selon Julia
Rachelle Okawa
Pages: 16-27
Published online: 25 Nov 2011
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An aesthetics of war: The postcolonial ethics of Anil’s Ghost
Ryan Mowat
Pages: 28-39
Published online: 21 Oct 2011
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Of exile and writing: An interview with the Tibetan poet Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Shelly Bhoil
Pages: 40-46
Published online: 16 Nov 2011
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Sea of secrets: Imagining illicit fishing in Robert Barclay’s Meļaļ and Rob Stewart’s Sharkwater
Teresa Shewry
Pages: 47-59
Published online: 07 Jul 2011
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Eco-human engagement in recent Nigerian poetry in English
Sule E. Egya
Pages: 60-70
Published online: 12 Apr 2012
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Special Focus: "In/Visibility and African Thrillers"

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Introduction: in/visibility and African thrillers
Ranka Primorac
Pages: 71-73
Published online: 12 Dec 2012
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“Nothing is truly hidden”: visibility, aesthetics and Yasmina Khadra’s detective fiction
Sharae Deckard
Pages: 74-86
Published online: 12 Dec 2012
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Popular perceptions: voice and genre in Félix Couchoro’s crime fiction
Pim Higginson
Pages: 87-99
Published online: 12 Dec 2012
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The soft things of life: detection and manhood in South-Eastern Africa
Ranka Primorac
Pages: 100-110
Published online: 12 Dec 2012
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Review

Book Review
The stillbirth of capital: enlightenment writing and colonial India
Emma Bird
Pages: 111-113
Published online: 31 Aug 2012
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REVIEWS

Book Review
Exit: endings and new beginnings in literature and in life
Ranka Primorac
Pages: 113-114
Published online: 05 Nov 2012
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Book Review
Striding both worlds: Witi Ihimaera and New Zealand’s literary traditions
Lydia Wevers
Pages: 114-116
Published online: 31 Aug 2012
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The secular visionaries: aestheticism and New Zealand short fiction in the twentieth century
Janet Wilson
Pages: 116-118
Published online: 12 Oct 2012
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Janet Frame: short fiction
Isabel Michell
Pages: 118-119
Published online: 10 Sep 2012
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The rose and the lotus: partnership studies in the works of Raja Rao
Dieter Riemenschneider
Pages: 119-120
Published online: 27 Nov 2012
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REVIEW

Book Review
Global Crusoe: comparative literature, postcolonial theory and transnational aesthetics
Gerd Bayer
Pages: 120-121
Published online: 05 Nov 2012
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Narrating from the margins: self-representation of female and colonial subjectivities in Jean Rhys’s novels
Joel Gwynne
Page: 122
Published online: 13 Nov 2012
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Review

Book Review
British Muslim fictions: interviews with contemporary writers
Humaira Saeed
Page: 123
Published online: 12 Dec 2012
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Book Review
Chicano nations: the hemispheric origins of Mexican American literature
Claire Taylor
Pages: 124-125
Published online: 05 Nov 2012
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REVIEW

Book Review
Australian, New Zealand and Pacific literatures
Geoffrey V. Davis
Pages: 125-126
Published online: 12 Dec 2012
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