Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 51, Issue 2 (2015)

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Imaginary Europes

Introduction

Introduction
Imaginary Europes, phantoms of the past, conceptions of the future?
Elisabeth Bekers, Maggie Ann Bowers & Sissy Helff
Pages: 127-131
Published online: 03 Mar 2015
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Fragile balance: Imaginary Europes, transcultural aesthetics and discourses of European identity in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Last Resort and Steven Spielberg’s War Horse
Sissy Helff
Pages: 132-143
Published online: 13 Mar 2015
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British imaginings of a European periphery: Roger Scruton, Michael Palin and Michael Booth in/on Finland
Jopi Nyman
Pages: 144-157
Published online: 03 Mar 2015
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Bursting the bubble: Mythical Englishness, then and now
Christine Berberich
Pages: 158-169
Published online: 03 Mar 2015
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Wanton and sensuous in the Musée du Quai Branly: Gerald Vizenor’s cosmoprimitivist visions of France
James Mackay
Pages: 170-183
Published online: 03 Mar 2015
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Asia’s Europes: Anti-colonial attitudes in the novels of Ondaatje and Shamsie
Maggie Ann Bowers
Pages: 184-195
Published online: 04 Mar 2015
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Long distance Afrikaners: Afrikaans literature and dislocated identity in a European context
Margriet van der Waal
Pages: 196-207
Published online: 09 Mar 2015
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Writing back or writing off? Europe as “tribe” and “traumascape” in works by Caryl Phillips and Christos Tsiolkas
Janine Hauthal
Pages: 208-219
Published online: 04 Mar 2015
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Articles

Article
Yeats, Said and decolonization
Tahrir Hamdi
Pages: 220-232
Published online: 21 Oct 2014
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Review Essay

From the sublime to the extraordinary: geek and bhakti
Bruce King
Pages: 233-237
Published online: 04 Mar 2015
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Reviews

Book Review
What is a classic? Postcolonial rewriting and invention of the canon
Róbert Gáfrik
Pages: 238-239
Published online: 15 Oct 2014
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Commonwealth of letters: British literary culture and the emergence of postcolonial aesthetics
Matthew Whittle
Pages: 239-240
Published online: 27 Aug 2014
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Book Review
Postcolonial translocations: cultural representation and critical spatial thinking; The contemporary novel and the city: reconceiving national and narrative form
Michael G. Cronin
Pages: 240-242
Published online: 20 Oct 2014
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Review

Book Review
Postcolonial studies across the disciplines; Storytelling: critical & creative approaches
Christinna Hobbs
Pages: 242-244
Published online: 27 Nov 2014
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Reviews

Book Review
Far from “home”: the English in New Zealand
Justine Seran
Pages: 244-245
Published online: 04 Jun 2014
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Book Review
Maria returns: Barbados to Mansfield Park
Bruce Harding
Page: 246
Published online: 26 Jun 2014
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Postcolonial Manchester: diaspora space and the devolution of literary culture
Rena Jackson
Pages: 247-248
Published online: 30 Sep 2014
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Book Review
Charles Brasch journals, 1938–1945; Landfall 226; Landfall 227
Philip Temple
Pages: 248-250
Published online: 15 Oct 2014
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Book Review
Fitz: the colonial adventures of James Edward FitzGerald
Philip Temple
Pages: 250-251
Published online: 15 Oct 2014
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Book Review
Race and identity in D.H. Lawrence: Indians, Gypsies, and Jews
David Callahan
Pages: 251-252
Published online: 17 Mar 2015
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