Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 55, Issue 5 (2019)

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Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 55, Issue 5 (2019)

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Editor’s Note

Editor’s note
Dominic Davies
Pages: 585-588
Published online: 04 Sep 2019
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Articles

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The aesthetics of the fragment: Progressivism and literary modernism in the work of the All-India Progressive Writers’ Association
Jennifer Dubrow
Pages: 589-601
Published online: 12 Jul 2019
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Queer eyes and gendered violence in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India
Hakyoung Ahn
Pages: 602-613
Published online: 24 Jun 2019
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The sentimental nightmare: The discourse of the scientific and the aesthetic in Rokeya S. Hossain’s “Sultana’s Dream”
Atanu Bhattacharya & Preet Hiradhar
Pages: 614-627
Published online: 08 May 2019
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Breaking the script: The generational conjuncture in the anglophone Palestinian novel
Maurice Ebileeni
Pages: 628-641
Published online: 24 Jun 2019
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Tim Winton and the ethics of the neighbour here and now
Peter D. Mathews
Pages: 642-655
Published online: 17 May 2019
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Other ways to treat an animal: Natural horsemanship and the ethnic other
Daniel McKay
Pages: 656-669
Published online: 07 Aug 2019
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Two views of an inevitable catastrophe that did not take place: Werner Herzog and Daniel Maximin on Guadeloupe, 1976
Jessica Stacey
Pages: 670-684
Published online: 08 Aug 2019
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“How can a river be red?” Violent petroculture in Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen
Kate Harlin
Pages: 685-697
Published online: 20 Aug 2019
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Sonic figures of heroism and the 1891 Hehe–German war in Mulokozi’s novel Ngome ya Mianzi
Imani Sanga
Pages: 698-709
Published online: 28 May 2019
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Moving in “a forest of hieroglyphs”: Enigmatic and mutable signs of identity in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light
María J. López
Pages: 710-722
Published online: 15 Jul 2019
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Book Reviews

Book Review
The postcolonial epic, from Melville to Walcott and Ghosh
Kerry-Jane Wallart
Pages: 723-724
Published online: 16 Aug 2019
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Critical branding: Postcolonial studies and the market
Michael Pritchard
Pages: 724-725
Published online: 16 Aug 2019
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Urdu poetry, 1935–1970: The progressive episode
Muneeza Shamsie
Pages: 725-726
Published online: 15 Aug 2019
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Journeys: a poet’s diary
Bruce King
Pages: 726-728
Published online: 10 Jul 2019
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Why should I write a poem now: The letters of Srinivas Rayaprol and William Carlos Williams, 1949–1958
Bruce King
Pages: 728-729
Published online: 05 Jul 2019
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