Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 56, Issue 6 (2020)

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Editor’s note

Editor’s note
Anastasia Valassopoulos
Pages: 731-733
Published online: 24 Nov 2020
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Articles

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Gender submerging the caste–class question? Revisiting Jyotirmoyee Devi’s The River Churning
Sarbani Banerjee
Pages: 734-746
Published online: 08 Jun 2020
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Mohammed Hanif’s Red Birds: “Anti-colonial textuality” and beyond
Asim Karim
Pages: 747-760
Published online: 13 Jul 2020
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“The reign of error”: Tropes of exception in Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel
C.S. Bhagya
Pages: 761-774
Published online: 09 Jun 2020
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Traveller in one’s own land: Reverse movements in migritude literature
Sushmita Sircar
Pages: 775-788
Published online: 19 Jun 2020
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The experience of homecoming in Teju Cole’s Every Day Is for the Thief: An investigation into the othered “cosmopolitan stranger”
Ángela Suárez Rodríguez
Pages: 789-802
Published online: 09 Nov 2020
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When Caliban writes back: Alameddine’s appropriation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Yousef Awad
Pages: 803-816
Published online: 16 Sep 2020
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“The Arab Room”: Detention, disorientation, and displacement in Palestinian airport narratives
Drew Paul
Pages: 817-829
Published online: 10 Nov 2020
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Reading the world anew: Zapatista stories, the denial of singularity, and the creation of a plural world
Israel Holas Allimant & Eugenia Demuro
Pages: 830-844
Published online: 12 Nov 2020
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The theatrical imagining of diasporic modernity in Shih-I Hsiung’s Lady Precious Stream
Qingquan Qiao
Pages: 845-858
Published online: 22 May 2020
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Poetry

A Helpless Father
Debasish Mishra
Page: 859
Published online: 19 May 2020
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Six poems by Sambhunath Chattopadhyay
Amitendu Bhattacharya
Pages: 860-864
Published online: 25 Sep 2020
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Olive Schreiner and African modernism: allegory, empire and postcolonial writing
by Jade Munslow Ong, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2018, 196 pp., £115.00 (hardback) ISBN 978 1 138 93524 2
Joe Shaughnessy
Pages: 865-866
Published online: 24 May 2020
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Kipling and Yeats at 150: retrospectives/prospectives
edited by Promodini Varma and Anubhav Pradhan, Abingdon, Routledge, 2019, 274 pp., £96.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781138343900
Harish Trivedi
Pages: 866-867
Published online: 24 May 2020
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World literature in motion: institution, recognition, location
edited by Flair Donglai Shi and Gareth Guanming Tan, Stuttgart and Hannover, ibidem Press, 2020, 532 pp., £40 (hardback), ISBN 978-3-8382-1163-3
Jasmine Chen Zhang
Pages: 867-868
Published online: 22 Jun 2020
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Empire by invitation: William Walker and manifest destiny in Central America
by Michel Gobat, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2018, 367 pp., £28.95 (hardback), ISBN: 13978067473749-5
Dominic Alessio
Pages: 868-869
Published online: 03 Jul 2020
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Book Review
Queer terror: life, death, and desire in the settler colony
by C. Heike Schotten, New York, Columbia University Press, 2018, 272 pp., $35.00 (paperback), ISBN 9780231187473
Daniel Blanchard
Pages: 869-870
Published online: 28 Aug 2020
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Book Review
Kinship across the black Atlantic: writing diasporic relations
by Gigi Adair, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2019, 210 pp., £80.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-789-62037-5
Mónica Fernández Jiménez
Pages: 870-871
Published online: 03 Jul 2020
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Book Review
Unsettling Oceania
edited by Salhia Ben-Messahel and Christine Lorre-Johnston, Commonwealth Essays and Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1, Paris, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2018, 159 pp., €16.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0395-6989
Paloma Fresno-Calleja
Pages: 871-872
Published online: 06 Jul 2020
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Book Review
Bodyminds reimagined: (dis)ability, race, and gender in black women’s speculative fiction
by Sami Schalk, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2018, 192 pp., $24.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0822370888
Smaran Dayal
Pages: 873-874
Published online: 03 Jul 2020
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Visuality and identity in post-millennial Indian graphic narratives
by E. Dawson Varughese, London, Palgrave, 2018, 119 pp., ₹7086.81/£49.99 (hardcover), ISBN 978-3-3196-9489-4
Shailendra Singh
Pages: 874-875
Published online: 07 Jul 2020
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Christianity in India: the ani-colonial turn
by Clara A.B. Joseph, London, Routledge, 2019, 178 pp., £96.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780815357742
Philip Mingay
Pages: 875-876
Published online: 18 May 2020
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