Published: 2024-03-19
Articles
Subverting the Archetype
Heterogeneous Masculinities in Contemporary Arab American Women’s Fiction
Abstract
This article examines the heterogeneous Arab masculinities which contemporary Arab American women’s novels offer. This diversity, as this...
The Paradox of Representation in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People
“Just Words Written on a Page”
Abstract
This paper performs a close reading of Indra Sinha’s novel Animal’s People to demonstrate how South Asian literary texts are entangled...
Elite Power Structures in Karachi
A Neocolonial Reading of Bina Shah’s The 786 Cybercafé
Abstract
This study examines the elite power groups in Karachi in Bina Shah’s The 786 Cybercafé (2004) by using the lens of neocolonialism...
The Marginalized as Conservation’s Detritus
A Postcolonial Perspective
Abstract
Colonial rule has had long-lasting impacts on large parts of the world, with direct and indirect transformations brought about in the social...
“Karnan”
Internal Colonialism as the Symptom of Mimicry
Abstract
Mari Selvaraj’s Karnan represents internal colonialism—defined as regional disparities in socio-economic
development—as an element...
Modernity in the Malay Archipelago
Unraveling Empire and Europeanness in Hugh Clifford’s Sally (1904) and Louis Couperus’ De stille kracht (1900)
Abstract
At the turn of the twentieth century, the British and Dutch colonized extensive parts of the Malay Archipelago. They justified imperial...
An Ontology of Necropolitical Governance
Otherness and Precarity of the Rohingya in Myanmar
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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...