Published: 2024-11-04

Editor's Note

Hans-Georg Erney

1–2

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Editor's note to issue 12-1 by Hans-Georg Erney

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State of the Field

African Literary Studies

Simon Lewis

3–20

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This article considers the history and current status of African literary studies in the anglophone academy, especially in the United States....

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The Ambivalence of Revolutionary Cleaning in Mona Prince's "Revolution is My Name"

Nada Ayad

21–32

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Egyptian writer Mona Prince’s self-published 2012 memoir Revolution is My Name abounds with descriptions of transferring Tahrir Square...

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Migration without Movement

Arrival, Immobility, and Edo Identity Formation

Osarugue Otebele

33–48

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Discourses of migration often figure the migrant and those who stay behind as separate identities marked by locational differences. However,...

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Situating Traditional Political Systems in the Nigerian Federal Governance

Ufot B. Inamete

49–68

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The goal of this study is to examine how the precolonial political system impacts the postcolonial political system of the Federal Republic of...

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Imagining a New State

(Re)visiting the Gandhian Model of Panchayati Raj in the Contemporary Discourse of Postcolonialism and Neoliberalism

Rangnath Thakur, Binod Mishra

69–86

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The famous Miliband-Poulantzas debate between the Marxist theorists Ralph Miliband and Nicos Poulantzas gave a new way to understand the...

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Expansions of the Real

A Study of Climate Change Realism in Amitav Ghosh’s "Gun Island"

Sten Moslund

87–106

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This article explores the challenges posed by the Anthropocene and climate change to human perceptions of reality and the need to revise...

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Islam and the Thanatoethics of Sacrifice

Reading Qurbani in the post-9/11 Climate in Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil

Sk Sagir Ali

107–121

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The Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) once said that whoever is capable of performing qurbani (Muslim charitable giving) but does...

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The Influence of Colonial Trauma on the Masculine Characteristics of Georgian Identity

Mzia Jamagidze

122–135

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The present paper explores two Georgian literary texts written at the beginning of the twentieth century, at the early stage of Sovietization:...

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Postcolonial Cinema’s Pop-Culture Turn

A Survey of the Field

Jerod Ra’Del Hollyfield

136–147

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Bannister, Matthew. Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi. Wayne State UP, 2021. 304 pp. Paperback....

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Notes on Contributors

148–150

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Contributor biographies for volume 12, issue 1 of the Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies

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