Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 60, Issue 2 (2024)

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Special Focus: Diaspora Screen Media; Guest Editors: Janet M. Wilson, Rajinder Dudrah, and David Simmonds

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Introduction
Black British/ British Asian diaspora screen media
Janet M. Wilson
Pages: 127-134
Published online: 26 Jun 2024
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Return to innocence? Diaspora screen media and “New Ethnicities” in the moment of diversity
Anamik Saha
Pages: 135-149
Published online: 07 Feb 2024
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Live and let live: The Black 007 in No Time To Die
Rajinder Dudrah
Pages: 150-166
Published online: 09 Nov 2023
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“Real queens fix each other’s crowns”: The interiorities of Black (British) girlhood in Rocks (2019)
Keisha Bruce
Pages: 167-181
Published online: 07 May 2024
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“Abhi Toh Main Jawan Hoon” (For I am forever young): Reflections on the agentic cinematic presence of Zohra Sehgal in British Indian films
Debashrita Dey & Priyanka Tripathi
Pages: 182-198
Published online: 11 Apr 2024
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Indigestible performances: Women, punk, and the limits of British multiculturalism in Nida Mazoor’s We Are Lady Parts
Muzna Rahman
Pages: 199-214
Published online: 19 Jun 2024
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Displacing difference, interrupting Indianness: Song sequences in digitally-released Indian-American films
Damini Kulkarni
Pages: 215-228
Published online: 06 Jun 2024
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Black British love matters: Asserting the transformative power of love in Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour: Mythical Tales Around the World Retold
Irene Pérez-Fernández
Pages: 229-243
Published online: 20 Feb 2024
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“Intersectional perspectives and youthful trauma”: (Re)considering Gauri in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland
Reshmi Lahiri-Roy
Pages: 244-259
Published online: 19 Feb 2024
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Mapping identity and place in Yongping Li’s The End of the River
Xiaoling Yao
Pages: 260-273
Published online: 18 Dec 2023
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Sensitive reading: The pleasures of South Asian literature in translation
edited by Yigal Bronner and Charles Hallisey, Oakland, University of California Press, 2022, 272 pp., £30.00 (paperback), ISBN 9780520384477
Anita
Pages: 274-275
Published online: 27 Sep 2023
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The environmental apocalypse: Interdisciplinary reflections on the climate crisis
edited by Jakub Kowalewski, Abingdon, Routledge, 2022, 280 pp., £34.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781032038063
Jesse van Amelsvoort
Pages: 275-276
Published online: 23 Nov 2023
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Spatial boundaries, abounding spaces: Colonial borders in French and francophone literature and film
by Mohit Chandna, Leuven, Leuven University Press, 2021, 302 pp., €28.00 (paperback), ISBN 9789462702738
Jane Hiddleston
Pages: 276-277
Published online: 27 Sep 2023
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Decolonising English studies from the semi-periphery
by Ana Cristina Mendes, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 255 pp., £79.50 (e-book), ISBN 978-3-031-20286-5
Melissa Kennedy
Pages: 277-279
Published online: 31 Jul 2023
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Representations of precarity in South Asian literature in English
edited by Om Prakash Dwivedi, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 300 pp., £89.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-3-031-06816-4
Sanjeev Vishwakarma
Pages: 279-280
Published online: 03 Aug 2023
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Culture and the literary: Matter, metaphor, memory
by Avishek Parui, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2022, 234 pp., £69.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-78661-599-2
Hanna Teichler
Pages: 281-282
Published online: 17 Apr 2023
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Green academia: Towards eco-friendly education systems
by Sayan Dey, London and New York, Routledge, 2023, 118 pp., £33.29 (e-book), ISBN: 978-1-003-30195-0
Abhijit Maity
Pages: 282-283
Published online: 18 Apr 2023
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Oil fictions: World literature and our contemporary petrosphere
edited by Stacey Balkan and Swaralipi Nandi, University Park, PA, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021, 308 pp., $124.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-271-09158-7
Jesse van Amelsvoort
Pages: 283-284
Published online: 04 Apr 2023
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