The Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies publishes interdisciplinary and cross-cultural articles and interviews on literature, history, politics, and art whose focus, settings, or subjects involve colonialism and its aftermath, with an emphasis on the former British Empire.
Current Issue
Vol. 12 No. 1 (2024): Spring 2024
Published: 2024-11-04
Articles
State of the Field
African Literary Studies
3–20
AbstractThis article considers the history and current status of African literary studies in the anglophone academy, especially in the United States....
The Ambivalence of Revolutionary Cleaning in Mona Prince's "Revolution is My Name"
21–32
AbstractEgyptian writer Mona Prince’s self-published 2012 memoir Revolution is My Name abounds with descriptions of transferring Tahrir Square...
Migration without Movement
Arrival, Immobility, and Edo Identity Formation
33–48
AbstractDiscourses of migration often figure the migrant and those who stay behind as separate identities marked by locational differences. However,...
Situating Traditional Political Systems in the Nigerian Federal Governance
49–68
AbstractThe goal of this study is to examine how the precolonial political system impacts the postcolonial political system of the Federal Republic of...
Imagining a New State
(Re)visiting the Gandhian Model of Panchayati Raj in the Contemporary Discourse of Postcolonialism and Neoliberalism
69–86
AbstractThe famous Miliband-Poulantzas debate between the Marxist theorists Ralph Miliband and Nicos Poulantzas gave a new way to understand the...
Expansions of the Real
A Study of Climate Change Realism in Amitav Ghosh’s "Gun Island"
87–106
AbstractThis article explores the challenges posed by the Anthropocene and climate change to human perceptions of reality and the need to revise...
Islam and the Thanatoethics of Sacrifice
Reading Qurbani in the post-9/11 Climate in Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil
107–121
AbstractThe Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) once said that whoever is capable of performing qurbani (Muslim charitable giving) but does...
The Influence of Colonial Trauma on the Masculine Characteristics of Georgian Identity
122–135
AbstractThe present paper explores two Georgian literary texts written at the beginning of the twentieth century, at the early stage of Sovietization:...
Book Review
Postcolonial Cinema’s Pop-Culture Turn
A Survey of the Field
136–147
AbstractBannister, Matthew. Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi. Wayne State UP, 2021. 304 pp. Paperback....
Notes on Contributors
148–150
AbstractContributor biographies for volume 12, issue 1 of the Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies.