Published: 2024-03-19

Expansions of the Real

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

Sten Moslund
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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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Diaspora, Modernism, and Black Masculinities in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Andrew Salkey’s Escape to an Autumn Pavement

Shun Yin Kiang
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Following the transnational turn in modernist studies, and building on Stuart Hall’s and Nadia Ellis’s concepts of diaspora as key to...

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“Ye Be the Clear Morag Yourself”

Spivak, a Global Marx, and Just Weather Talk

Namita Goswami
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This essay creates a heuristic homology between postcoloniality and strains of survivorship whose very contingency “de-humaniz[es] greed as the...

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

Nada Ayad
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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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Singing Blackness

Racial Discourse in Black Cuban and Black Dominican Rap and Hip-Hop

Anastasia Valecce
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In this article I propose the exploration of racial discourse in recent Black Caribbean rap and hip-hop productions. Rap and hip-hop are often...

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