Published: 2024-03-19

The Danger of a Single Chronotope

Modern African Diaspora and Blogging Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

Anmol Sahni
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In The Black Atlantic, Paul Gilroy popularized the ship as a salient chronotope for examining...

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Boundary Poetics

Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail

Taylor Roberts
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This essay approaches Adania Shibli’s 2016 novella Minor Detail through what I term boundary poetics, a way of reading state-sanctioned...

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“Does My Voice Count?”

The Reconfiguration of Myth and Gender in Monique Roffey’s The Mermaid of Black Conch

Jutta Schamp
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The imbrication of depth psychology, textual genealogy, and Postcolonial Studies has not received much attention when healing trauma caused by...

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Kanthapura as “India in Microcosm” in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura

Contesting a Misreading

Nakul Kundra
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Against the backdrop of the Indian freedom struggle, Raja Rao’s Kanthapura touches on the psycho-spiritual idea of India in a rural...

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A Narrative House of Mirrors

Reading Language and the City in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Exit West

Stuti Khanna
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The paper reads The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) and Exit West (2017) as texts of displacement: texts that are about...

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Hybridity in Arabic Science Fiction

Musab Bajaber
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This essay tackles the nuances of establishing Arabic science fiction (ASF) within postcolonial literature. It argues that even though...

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An Ontology of Necropolitical Governance

Otherness and Precarity of the Rohingya in Myanmar

Argha Bhattacharyya, Saswat Samay Das
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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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“The Face of the Buffalo”: Interspecies Relationality in Nawal El Saadawi’s God Dies by the Nile 

Uchechukwu Umezurike, Ademola Adesola
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In several interviews, the Egyptian American writer and feminist Nawal El Saadawi has emphasized her commitment to women’s rights and gender...

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“Against Forgetting”

Witnessing and Memory-Making in Agha Shahid Ali’s The Country Without a Post Office

Junaid Shah Shabir
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This paper investigates the witnessing and memory-making functions of the poetry of Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali. Against the backdrop...

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Postcolonial Comics and Graphic Novels

A Review Essay

Suhaan Kiran Mehta
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Mark McKinney, Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics. Leuven
UP, 2021. Paperback. $74.


Esra Mirze Santesso. Muslim Comics...

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