Published: 2025-05-14

Editor's Note

Hans-Georg Erney

1–2

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Editor's note to volume 13, number 1 (Spring 2025) of the Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies

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Bridging the Cultural Divide: A Study of The Cartography of Love in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Oleander Girl

Chitra Krishnan

17–32

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Oleander Girl is a skilfully crafted novel in which the author, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni pens a tale that puts forth manifold...

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Elite Power Structures in Karachi

A Neocolonial Reading of Bina Shah’s The 786 Cybercafé

Farkhanda Shahid Khan, Saeeda Nazir
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This study examines the elite power groups in Karachi in Bina Shah’s The 786 Cybercafé (2004) by using the lens of neocolonialism...

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Violence, Grief, and Ghosts

Examining Satire in Mohammed Hanif’s Red Birds

Pooja Sancheti

33–50

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Satire has been used widely to ridicule and criticize agents of oppression using literary tools like parody, irony, and exaggeration. In the...

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The Paradox of Representation in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People

“Just Words Written on a Page”

Agnibha Banerjee

51–66

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This paper performs a close reading of Indra Sinha’s novel Animal’s People to demonstrate how South Asian literary texts are entangled...

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The Marginalized as Conservation’s Detritus

A Postcolonial Perspective

Meenakshi Sharma

67–87

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Colonial rule has had long-lasting impacts on large parts of the world, with direct and indirect transformations brought about in the social...

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An Ontology of Necropolitical Governance

Otherness and Precarity of the Rohingya in Myanmar

Argha Bhattacharyya, Saswat Samay Das

88–108

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The world witnessed one of the most devastating ethnic group exoduses in Southeast Asia in August 2017, with the Rohingya at its core. Enduring...

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“Karnan”

Internal Colonialism as the Symptom of Mimicry

Julie Grandjean

109–123

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Mari Selvaraj’s Karnan represents internal colonialism—defined as regional disparities in socioeconomic development—as an element of mimicry....

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Modernity in the Malay Archipelago

Unraveling Empire and Europeanness in Hugh Clifford’s Sally (1904) and Louis Couperus’ De stille kracht (1900)

Marijke Denger

124–146

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At the turn of the twentieth century, the British and Dutch colonized extensive parts of the Malay Archipelago. They justified imperial...

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Subverting the Archetype

Heterogeneous Masculinities in Contemporary Arab American Women’s Fiction

Rachid Lamghari

147–164

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This article examines the heterogeneous Arab masculinities which contemporary Arab American women’s novels offer. This diversity, as this...

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Notes on Contributors

165–167

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Contributor biographies for volume 13, number 1 (Spring 2025) of the Journal of Global South Studies

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