Published: 2021-07-14
Articles
The Doors of Compression
Time, Space, and Global Backlash to Migration in Mohsin Hamid's "Exit West"
137–153
AbstractIn the introduction to the third edition of Globalization: The Transformation of Social Worlds, editors D. Stanley Eitzen and Maxine...
"Not at Home in Empire"
Precarity, Fragility, and Resistance in Amitav Ghosh's "The Glass Palace"
154–175
AbstractAmitav Ghosh opposes the “agonistic” or “reconciliatory” strand in postcolonial studies espoused amongst others by Bhabha. By fusing...
"You're White": You Can Do Anything"
Hollywood's Celebration of the Colonial Post in a Postapartheid Temporal Enclave
176–188
AbstractThe Ghost and the Darkness (dir. Stephen Hopkins, 1996) possesses ingredients that could have yielded a film that was popular and...
Narrating Pakistani History
Mingling Memory and Experience in Kamila Shamsie's Novels
189–209
AbstractKamila Shamsie writes revisionary historiography of her country. Official historiography erases some very significant areas and experiences...
Curing Oneself of One's (Father)Land
Nosto/Patriography in "The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between" by Hisham Matar
210–228
AbstractIn 2012, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar returned to his native Libya after a hiatus of over thirty years so as to learn about the fate of...
Exploring Love, Sex, and Loneliness in Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay's "Panty"
229–240
AbstractSangeeta Bandyopadhyay (b. 1974), a modern feminist writer, promotes and celebrates women’s freedom that the women seek to enjoy both physically...
Women's Health in Uganda
A Review of the Landscape of Reproductive Health in Uganda
241–254
AbstractThe landscape surrounding reproductive health in Uganda is underpinned by layered interactions between a host of powerful factors, all of which...
Book Review
Cooper, Darius. Aavaan Javaan: Arriving at and Departing from. Authorspress, 2018
245–247
AbstractReview of: Cooper, Darius. Aavaan Javaan: Arriving at and Departing from. Authorspress, 2018. Reviewed by Mitali P. Wong.
Notes on Contributors
248–249
AbstractBrief biographies of the contributors to this issue of the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies.