Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 56, Issue 1 (2020)

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Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 56, Issue 1 (2020)

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Editor’s note

Editor’s note
Anastasia Valassopoulos
Pages: 1-3
Published online: 24 Jan 2020
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Transgenerational shame in postcolonial Italy: Igiaba Scego’s Adua
Lucy Rand
Pages: 4-17
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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The revaluation of hybridity in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North
Apala Das
Pages: 18-29
Published online: 31 Oct 2019
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Postcolonial flânerie in Caryl Phillips’s The Atlantic Sound and Ferdinand Dennis’s Behind the Frontlines: Journey into Afro-Britain
Sofia Aatkar
Pages: 30-42
Published online: 30 Oct 2019
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Making and unmaking: The project of the colonial nation-state and the counter-discursive strategy of ethnonation in Kim Scott’s Benang
Arindam Das
Pages: 43-56
Published online: 14 Nov 2019
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The rhetoric of Sara Suleri: Life writing and postcolonial theory
William Ghosh
Pages: 57-69
Published online: 14 Nov 2019
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The precarious lives of India’s Others: The creativity of precarity in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Ana Cristina Mendes & Lisa Lau
Pages: 70-82
Published online: 09 Dec 2019
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“The self and the world against which it had to live”: Neocolonialism and the resistant subject in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Sarah Jilani
Pages: 83-96
Published online: 19 Dec 2019
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Postcolonial criticism and cognitive literary studies: A new formalist approach to Antjie Krog’s Country of My Skull
Alexandra Effe
Pages: 97-109
Published online: 08 Jan 2020
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“Breaking language”: Performance and community in Suheir Hammad’s poetry
Dashiell Moore
Pages: 110-125
Published online: 08 Jan 2020
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African adventure and metropolitan dissent in Thomas Hardy’s Two on a Tower (1882)
Rena Jackson
Pages: 126-139
Published online: 24 Jan 2020
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Review Essay

Essay
Postcolonial poetics?
Michela Borzaga
Pages: 140-146
Published online: 24 Jan 2020
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