Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 59, Issue 5 (2023)

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Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 59, Issue 5 (2023)

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Research Article

Article
The aqueous form and the Afro–Sino encounter in Yvonne Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea
Siwei Wang
Pages: 577-592
Published online: 07 Dec 2023
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New northern voices: Black British writing and the devolving politics of prize culture
Chloe Ashbridge
Pages: 593-606
Published online: 07 Dec 2023
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Documenting the unarchivable: Minor Detail and the archive of senses
Ella Elbaz
Pages: 607-619
Published online: 07 Dec 2023
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Building resilience in Lawrence Hill’s The Illegal
Sara Casco-Solís
Pages: 620-631
Published online: 16 Aug 2023
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“We’re all some sort of shaath”: Convergence and transversality of minorities in Saleem Haddad’s Guapa
Lava Asaad
Pages: 632-644
Published online: 08 Aug 2023
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Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan’s Postcolonial Banter and the paradoxes of spoken-word poetry
Hans-Georg Erney
Pages: 645-659
Published online: 01 Aug 2023
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“Yahoo-yahoos and Twitter kweens”: Internet technologies in contemporary Nigerian fiction
Penny Bicol Cartwright
Pages: 660-673
Published online: 01 Aug 2023
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Interview

“I believe there are as many motherhoods as there are mothers”: In conversation with Jerry Pinto
Shivalika Agarwal & Nagendra Kumar
Pages: 674-684
Published online: 06 Apr 2023
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Poetry

Poetry
“Blood mist blurs my vision”: Six poems by Sukanta Bhattacharya
Amitendu Bhattacharya
Pages: 685-697
Published online: 15 Nov 2022
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Poetry
Under postcolonial African skies (excerpts from a ten-poem sequence)
Yugo Gabriel Egboluche
Pages: 698-700
Published online: 26 May 2022
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Review Essay

The new world literature
Bruce King
Pages: 701-703
Published online: 29 May 2023
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Book Review

Book Review
Re-Imagining the Guyanas
María Kaladeen
Pages: 704-705
Published online: 17 Feb 2023
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Book Review
The idea of Indian literature: Gender, genre, and comparative method
by Preetha Mani, Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 2022, 288 pp., $34.95 (hardback), ISBN 9780810145016
Jie Guo
Page: 706
Published online: 17 Feb 2023
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Book Review
Deliberative agency: A study in modern African political philosophy
by Uchenna Okeja, Indiana, Indiana University Press, 2022, 234 pp., $30 (paperback), ISBN 9780253059918
Mitterand M. Okorie
Pages: 707-708
Published online: 02 Feb 2023
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Book Review
The Calcutta kerani and the London clerk in the 19th century: Life, labour, latitude
by Sumit Chakrabarti, New York, Routledge, 2021, 192 pp., £96.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780367145729
Ankhi Mukherjee
Pages: 708-709
Published online: 02 Feb 2023
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