Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 53, Issue 5 (2017)

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Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 53, Issue 5 (2017)

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Editor's Note

Editor’s Note
Melanie A. Murray
Pages: 515-517
Published online: 27 Nov 2017
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Original Articles

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“From over the Seven Seas the Empire’s sons came”: Addressing historical oblivion in Andrea Levy’s “Uriah’s War”
Irene Pérez-Fernández
Pages: 518-529
Published online: 15 Feb 2017
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Intertextuality and influence: Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah (1987) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)
Aghogho Akpome
Pages: 530-542
Published online: 05 Jun 2017
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Truth and fiction: Or, orature and witnessing in Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone
Francis Ngaboh-Smart
Pages: 543-554
Published online: 05 Mar 2017
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“Home had a way of shifting”: Cosmopolitan belonging in Diana Evans’s 26a
Samantha Reive Holland
Pages: 555-566
Published online: 15 Mar 2017
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The school play and the murder machine: Nationalism and amateur theatre in the work of Patrick Pearse and Rabindranath Tagore
Simon Featherstone
Pages: 567-577
Published online: 13 Oct 2016
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“Shades of the prison house”: Reading Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Peter Carey’s Amnesia
Martin Staniforth
Pages: 578-589
Published online: 22 May 2017
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Interview

Discussion
The nature of empathy: An interview with Caryl Phillips
Stephen Clingman
Pages: 590-612
Published online: 08 Feb 2017
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Poetry

Poetry
Land/Lord
Virginia Lowe
Pages: 613-614
Published online: 18 May 2017
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Poetry
Two poems by Shanta Acharya
Shanta Acharya
Pages: 615-616
Published online: 22 May 2017
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Book Review

Book Review
Contemporary African literature in English: Global locations, postcolonial identifications
Daria Tunca
Pages: 617-618
Published online: 09 Jun 2017
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Book Review
Empire by treaty: negotiating European expansion, 1600–1900
Dominic Alessio
Pages: 618-619
Published online: 01 Dec 2015
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Recognition and ethics in world literature: Religion, violence and the human
Anshuman A. Mondal
Pages: 619-620
Published online: 11 May 2017
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Re-Orientalism and Indian writing in English
Ana Cristina Mendes
Pages: 620-621
Published online: 08 Dec 2015
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Book Reviews

Book Review
I dreamt a horse fell from the sky: poems, fiction and non-fiction
Bruce King
Pages: 621-623
Published online: 24 Mar 2016
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Poetics of the flesh
Jajati K. Pradhan & Seema Singh
Pages: 623-624
Published online: 16 Sep 2016
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Scotland and the Caribbean, c. 1740–1883: Atlantic archipelagos
John McLeod
Pages: 624-625
Published online: 24 Jun 2016
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Book Review
Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian postcolonial literature
Cheow-Thia Chan
Pages: 625-626
Published online: 05 Apr 2017
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Book Review

Book Review
South-Asian fiction in English: Contemporary transformations
Esha Sil
Pages: 626-627
Published online: 31 Jan 2017
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