Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 58, Issue 3 (2022)

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Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 58, Issue 3 (2022)

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Place and the postcolonial poetry of Nigeria
Tosin Gbogi
Pages: 293-307
Published online: 03 Dec 2021
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Cosmopolitanism and strange encounters in George Elliott Clarke’s The Motorcyclist
Miasol Eguíbar Holgado
Pages: 308-322
Published online: 05 Oct 2021
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The legacy of Angélique in late 20th-century Black Canadian drama
Pilar Cuder-Domínguez
Pages: 323-335
Published online: 21 Dec 2021
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Open Access
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Object as subject: Material agency in Ismat Chughtai’s “The Quilt” and “Chhoti Apa”
Sheelalipi Sahana
Pages: 336-348
Published online: 04 Jan 2022
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Materializing grief: The reclamation of loss in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire
Gabriella Pishotti
Pages: 349-360
Published online: 13 Jan 2022
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The anti-Antigone: Pākehā settler masculinity, racialized kinship, and contested paternity in Carl Nixon’s Settlers’ Creek
Jennifer Lawn
Pages: 361-373
Published online: 18 Jan 2022
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“For here, we have not an enduring city, but we are looking for the city to come”: Dysgraphia of disaster and wayward Black futures in Jay Bernard’s Surge (2019)
Cathie Kanagavalli Lakshmi Jayakumar-Hazra
Pages: 374-387
Published online: 11 Feb 2022
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Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family and the “familia-graphic” gaze
Joseph Cummins & Ashley Barnwell
Pages: 388-401
Published online: 07 Mar 2022
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Teaching Māori literature as a tauiwi scholar: A German case study
Leonie John
Pages: 402-416
Published online: 06 Apr 2022
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Poetry

Colour Everything
Ngoi Hui Chien
Pages: 417-418
Published online: 28 Apr 2022
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Book Review

Book Review
Translation in diasporic literatures
by Guanglin Wang, Singapore, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 144 pp., £44.99 (hardback), ISBN 9789811366086
Pan Xie
Pages: 419-420
Published online: 06 Dec 2021
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Book Review
A century of encounters: Writing the other in Arab North Africa
by Tanja Stampfl, New York, Routledge, 2019, 210 pp., £96.00 (hardback), £29.59 (eBook), ISBN 9780429199424
Hajar Mahfoodh
Pages: 420-421
Published online: 07 Dec 2021
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Book Review
American trickster: Trauma, tradition and Brer Rabbit
by Emily Zobel Marshall, London, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019, 182 pp., £24.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-78348-109-5
Natalie Lucy
Pages: 421-422
Published online: 07 Dec 2021
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Book Review
Rethinking the victim: Gender and violence in contemporary Australian women’s writing
by Anne Brewster and Sue Kossew, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2019, 240 pp., £96.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781138092594
Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp
Pages: 422-423
Published online: 07 Dec 2021
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Book Review
World literature in motion: Institution, recognition, location
edited by Flair Donglai Shi and Gareth Guangming Tan, Stuttgart, Ibidem Press, 2020, 320 pp., $40.00 (paperback), ISBN 9783838211633
Elleke Boehmer
Pages: 423-424
Published online: 07 Dec 2021
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Book Review
Spectres from the past: Slavery and the politics of history in West African and African-American literature
by Portia Owusu, New York, Routledge, 2019, 194 pp., £96.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780367819897
Paula Barba Guerrero
Pages: 424-425
Published online: 07 Dec 2021
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Book Review
Dalit Lekhika: Women’s writings from Bengal
edited by Kalyani Thakur Charal and Sayantan Dasgupta, Kolkata, Stree, 2020, 164 pp., ₹500 (paperback), ISBN 978-93-81345-12-2
Bidisha Pal
Page: 426
Published online: 07 Dec 2021
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Book Review
Justice and human rights in the African imagination: We, too, are humans
by Chielozona Eze, Abingdon: Routledge, 2021, 184 pp., $160 (hardback), ISBN 978-0367708542
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
Pages: 427-428
Published online: 26 Jan 2022
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Book Review
Afghanistan under siege: The Afghan body and the postcolonial border
by Bojan Savić, London and Oxford, Bloomsbury, 2020, 247 pp., £76.50 (hardback), ISBN 9781788315265
Rezvaneh Erfani
Pages: 428-429
Published online: 03 May 2022
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Book Review
Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers: Race, Ethics, Narrative Form
edited by Jean Wyatt and Sheldon George, New York and London, Routledge, 2020, 288 pp., £120.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-367-18928-0
Nahla Raffaoui
Pages: 429-430
Published online: 02 May 2022
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Book Review
Displaced: Literature of indigeneity, migration, and trauma
edited by Kate Rose, New York and London, Routledge, 2020, 272 pp., £33.29 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-003-00588-9
Emma Barnes
Pages: 430-431
Published online: 06 May 2022
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Book Review
Insurgent imaginations: World literature and the periphery
by Auritro Majumder, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, xiv + 226 pp., £75.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-I-108-47757-4
Barnita Bagchi
Pages: 432-433
Published online: 02 May 2022
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Book Review
Postcolonial literatures in the local literary marketplace: Located reading
by Jenni Ramone, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 261 pp., £76.00 (hardback), ISBN 978113756933 2
Carmen Thong
Pages: 433-434
Published online: 07 Jun 2022
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Book Review
South Asian digital humanities: Postcolonial mediations across technology’s cultural Canon
edited by Roopika Risam and Rahul K. Gairola, Oxon, Routledge, 2021, 261 pp., £120.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 367 50405 2
Carmen Thong
Pages: 434-435
Published online: 06 Jun 2022
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Book Review
Jewish American writing and world literature: Maybe to millions, maybe to nobody
by Saul Noam Zaritt, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, 241 pp., £60.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-198-86371-7
Jesse van Amelsvoort
Pages: 435-436
Published online: 07 Jun 2022
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Book Review
The visceral logics of decolonization
by Neetu Khanna, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2020, 200 pp., $24.95 US (paperback), ISBN 9781478008170
Zulfqar Hyder
Pages: 436-437
Published online: 07 Jun 2022
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Book Review
Queering tribal folktales from East and Northeast India
by Kaustav Chakraborty, London and New York, Routledge, 2021, 209 pp., $160 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-367-54183-5
Rajorshi Das
Pages: 437-438
Published online: 07 Jun 2022
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