Published: 2022-04-05
Articles
Encountering the Colonial Relationship and Existential Uncertainty in Andrea Levy’s Small Island
3–17
AbstractFor West Indian colonials whose cultural traditions are colored by the idealizations of a colonizing British mother country, discovering one’s...
Finding the Empathetic Genre
A Critique of Love and Heroism in Mirza Waheed’s The Book of Gold Leaves
31–46
AbstractEmpathy scholars not just show that when effortfully cultivated, empathy can be recruited for out-grouping, they also assert that literatures,...
Touch vs. Technology
Towards a Politics of Affect in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017) and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire (2017)
47–60
AbstractIn 2019, the number of global migrants reached an estimated 272 million—an increase of 51 million since 2010—making up 3.5 percent of the global...
Gendered Rage
A Postcolonial Reading of Commercial Gestational Surrogacy in India
62–75
AbstractThis article brings the concept of anger, particularly gendered anger, to bear on a postcolonial and intersectional reading of the apparent...
Fiction
Notes on Contributors
86–87
AbstractNotes on the contributors of Volume 9, Number 1 of the Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies