Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 57, Issue 4 (2021)

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Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 57, Issue 4 (2021)

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Editor’s note

Editor’s note
Chris Ringrose
Pages: 437-441
Published online: 23 Aug 2021
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Articles

Article
Radical hopefulness in Mohsin Hamid’s map of the world: A reading of Exit West (2017)
Eva Rask Knudsen & Ulla Rahbek
Pages: 442-454
Published online: 04 Mar 2021
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Queer Pacific mobilities: Translocal bodies in the poetry of Dan Taulapapa McMullin
Mandy Treagus
Pages: 455-468
Published online: 07 Jun 2021
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“Home is a place in time”: Fractals and chronotopes in the poetry of Safia Elhillo
Ruth S. Wenske
Pages: 469-483
Published online: 11 Mar 2021
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The intersections of illness and literature in the Ottoman Empire: Figuring Émile Zola and syphilis in Halide Edib’s Mev’ut Hüküm
Şima İmşir
Pages: 484-498
Published online: 24 May 2021
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City, narratives, and nation: The representation of Karachi in H.M. Naqvi’s The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack
Asim Karim
Pages: 499-512
Published online: 13 Sep 2020
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Neoliberal extraction and aquatic resistance in Helon Habila’s Oil on Water
Saba Pirzadeh
Pages: 513-524
Published online: 25 Feb 2021
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Madness and psychiatry in K. Sello Duiker’s The Quiet Violence of Dreams
Femi Eromosele
Pages: 525-538
Published online: 27 Mar 2021
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Strategic auto-exoticism: Camara Laye’s L’Enfant noir (1953) and Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood (1994)
Roswitha Zahlner
Pages: 539-551
Published online: 04 Mar 2021
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Interview

Through an observer’s eyes: A conversation with author Siddhartha Gigoo
Upasana Sinha
Pages: 552-565
Published online: 21 Apr 2021
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Poetry

The Passport CV
Pages: 566-567
Published online: 18 Nov 2020
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Book Reviews

Book Review
World literature, non-synchronism, and the politics of time
by Filippo Menozzi, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 218 pp., £64.99 (hardback), ISBN: 978-3-030-41698-0
Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy
Pages: 568-569
Published online: 01 Nov 2020
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Palestinian citizens in Israel: a history through fiction, 1948–2010
by Manar H. Makhoul, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2020, 248 pp., £80.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781474459273
Hajar Mahfoodh
Pages: 569-570
Published online: 03 Nov 2020
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World literature and ecology: the aesthetics of commodity frontiers, 1890–1950
by Michael Niblett, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 258 pp., €76.29 (hardback), ISBN 978-3-030-38580-4
Jesse van Amelsvoort
Pages: 570-571
Published online: 03 Nov 2020
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The transcontinental Maghreb: francophone literature across the Mediterranean
by Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, New York, Fordham University Press, 2017, 272 pp., $25.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780823275168
Joseph Ford
Pages: 571-572
Published online: 03 Nov 2020
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In search of Africa(s): universalism and decolonial thought
by Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Jean-Loup Amselle, translated by Andrew Brown, Cambridge and Medford, Polity Press, 2020, 240 pp., $24.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1509540297
Khalid Lyamlahy
Pages: 572-573
Published online: 03 Nov 2020
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Postcolonial disaster: narrating catastrophe in the twenty-first century
by Pallavi Rastogi, Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 2020, 304 pp., $34.95 (paperback), ISBN 9780810141728
Liam O’Loughlin
Pages: 574-575
Published online: 05 Nov 2020
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Book Review
The Cambridge history of black and Asian British writing
edited by Susheila Nasta and Mark U. Stein, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 700 pp., £99.99 (hardback), ISBN 9781107195448
Natalie Lucy
Pages: 575-576
Published online: 01 Nov 2020
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Islam and gender: major issues and debates
by Adis Duderija, Alina Alak, and Kristin Hissong, London and New York, Routledge, 2020, 228 pp., £96.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780815396703
Sk Sagir Ali
Pages: 576-577
Published online: 03 Nov 2020
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The global novel and capitalism in crisis: contemporary literary narratives
by Treasa De Loughry, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 215 pp., £59.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-3-030-39325-0
C. S. Bhagya
Pages: 577-578
Published online: 01 Apr 2021
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Book Review
Why indigenous literatures matter
by Daniel Heath Justice, Waterloo, Ontario, Wilfried Laurier University Press, 2018, 284 pp., $19.99 (paperback), ISBN 978 1 77112 176 7
Francesca Mussi
Pages: 578-579
Published online: 29 Jun 2021
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Diaspora & returns in fiction
edited by Helen Cousins and Pauline Dodgson-Katyio, African Literature Today 34, Suffolk, James Currey, 2016, 255 pp., £50.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-84701-148-0
Bénédicte Ledent
Pages: 580-581
Published online: 30 Jun 2021
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Postcolonial automobility: car culture in West Africa
by Lindsey B. Green-Simms, Minneapolis and London, University of Minnesota Press, 2017, 280 pp., US$28.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-5179-0114-1
Sandra García-Corte
Pages: 581-582
Published online: 29 Jun 2021
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