Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 60, Issue 1 (2024)

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Refugee fiction as world-literature: Rethinking registration in the contemporary refugee novel
Charlotte Spear
Pages: 1-14
Published online: 04 Jan 2024
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Ambivalence, division, and critique: The collaborator in British Palestinian political thrillers
Isabelle Hesse
Pages: 15-27
Published online: 11 Dec 2023
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“You have to survive”: Reading trauma, survival, and adolescent resilience in N.H. Senzai’s contemporary young adult war narrative, Escape from Aleppo
Arya Priyadarshini, Sonya Andermahr & Suman Sigroha
Pages: 28-42
Published online: 04 Jan 2024
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(Un)Palatable encounters: Melancholic appetites in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Dhanashree Thorat
Pages: 43-55
Published online: 11 Dec 2023
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Women, rememory, and herstory: Reading Hangwoman as a feminist fiction of memory
Sruthi Vinayan & Merin Simi Raj
Pages: 56-68
Published online: 24 Jan 2024
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Homing in: Dom Moraes and the felt community of the dissociated in India
Durba Mukherjee & Sayan Chattopadhyay
Pages: 69-83
Published online: 15 Feb 2024
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Aboriginalizing Mother Courage: Brecht in Australia
Prateek
Pages: 84-98
Published online: 07 Feb 2024
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INTERVIEW

Interview
The longevity of a poem is what counts: An interview with Menka Shivdasani
Md Rakibul Islam
Pages: 99-112
Published online: 26 Jan 2024
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Book Review

Book Review
South African London: Writing the metropolis after 1948
by Andrea Thorpe, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2021, 288 pp., £80.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-5261-4855-1
Hayley G. Toth
Pages: 113-114
Published online: 23 Feb 2023
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Planetary specters: Race, migration, and climate change in the 21st century
by Neel Ahuja, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2022, 210 pp., $95.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781469664460
Jesse van Amelsvoort
Pages: 114-115
Published online: 01 Mar 2023
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Mobility in contemporary Zimbabwean literature in English: Crossing borders, transcending boundaries
by Magdalena Pfalzgraf, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2022, 260 pp., £96.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780367637811
Michelle Stork
Pages: 115-116
Published online: 22 Feb 2023
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Chiang Yee and his circle: Chinese artistic and intellectual life in Britain, 1930–1950
edited by Paul Bevan, Anne Witchard, and Da Zheng, Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2022, 244 pp., £32.02 (e-book), ISBN 978-988-8754-13-7
Qingquan Qiao
Pages: 116-118
Published online: 22 Feb 2023
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Isolated incident
by Mariam Pirbhai, Toronto, Mawenzi House, 2022, 224 pp., $22.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-77415-088-7
Shazia Sadaf
Pages: 118-119
Published online: 01 Mar 2023
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Unseen city: The psychic lives of the urban poor
by Ankhi Mukherjee, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 263 pp., £29.99 (hardback), ISBN 9781316517581
Tanya Agathocleous
Pages: 119-120
Published online: 01 Mar 2023
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Book Review
Debt/law/realism: Nigerian writers imagine the state at independence
by Neil ten Kortenaar, Montreal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021, 282 pp., $37.95 (paperback), ISBN 9780228006695
Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi
Pages: 120-121
Published online: 01 Mar 2023
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Antipodean China: Reflections on literary exchange
edited by Nicholas Jose and Benjamin Madden, Artarmon, NSW, Giramondo, 2021, 256 pp., $29.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781925818642
Xuehai Cui & Jiao Li
Pages: 122-123
Published online: 03 Mar 2023
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Book Review
The bleeding border: Stories of Bengal Partition
edited by Joyjit Ghosh and Mir Ahammad Ali, New Delhi, Niyogi Books, 2022, 502 pp., ₹750 (paperback), ISBN: 978-93-91125-01-1
Sk Tarik Ali
Pages: 123-124
Published online: 13 Mar 2023
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Book Review
The seven moons of Maali Almeida
by Shehan Karunatilaka, Gurugram, Haryana, Penguin Random House India, 2022, 400 pp., ₹399 (paperback), ISBN 9780143459675
Sharmila Narayana
Pages: 124-125
Published online: 27 Mar 2023
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