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. 13 No. 1 (2025): Spring 2025
Published: 2025-05-14
Articles
Editor's Note
1–2
AbstractEditor's note to volume 13, number 1 (Spring 2025) of the Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies.
Bridging the Cultural Divide: A Study of The Cartography of Love in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Oleander Girl
17–32
AbstractOleander Girl is a skilfully crafted novel in which the author, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni pens a tale that puts forth manifold...
Elite Power Structures in Karachi
A Neocolonial Reading of Bina Shah’s The 786 Cybercafé
Abstract
This study examines the elite power groups in Karachi in Bina Shah’s The 786 Cybercafé (2004) by using the lens of neocolonialism...
Violence, Grief, and Ghosts
Examining Satire in Mohammed Hanif’s Red Birds
33–50
AbstractSatire has been used widely to ridicule and criticize agents of oppression using literary tools like parody, irony, and exaggeration. In the...
The Paradox of Representation in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People
“Just Words Written on a Page”
51–66
AbstractThis paper performs a close reading of Indra Sinha’s novel Animal’s People to demonstrate how South Asian literary texts are entangled...
The Marginalized as Conservation’s Detritus
A Postcolonial Perspective
67–87
AbstractColonial rule has had long-lasting impacts on large parts of the world, with direct and indirect transformations brought about in the social...
An Ontology of Necropolitical Governance
Otherness and Precarity of the Rohingya in Myanmar
88–108
AbstractThe world witnessed one of the most devastating ethnic group exoduses in Southeast Asia in August 2017, with the Rohingya at its core. Enduring...
“Karnan”
Internal Colonialism as the Symptom of Mimicry
109–123
AbstractMari Selvaraj’s Karnan represents internal colonialism—defined as regional disparities in socioeconomic development—as an element of mimicry....
Modernity in the Malay Archipelago
Unraveling Empire and Europeanness in Hugh Clifford’s Sally (1904) and Louis Couperus’ De stille kracht (1900)
124–146
AbstractAt the turn of the twentieth century, the British and Dutch colonized extensive parts of the Malay Archipelago. They justified imperial...
Subverting the Archetype
Heterogeneous Masculinities in Contemporary Arab American Women’s Fiction
147–164
AbstractThis article examines the heterogeneous Arab masculinities which contemporary Arab American women’s novels offer. This diversity, as this...
Notes on Contributors
165–167
AbstractContributor biographies for volume 13, number 1 (Spring 2025) of the Journal of Global South Studies