Published: 2024-03-19
Articles
The Danger of a Single Chronotope
Modern African Diaspora and Blogging Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
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In The Black Atlantic, Paul Gilroy popularized the ship as a salient chronotope for examining...
Boundary Poetics
Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail
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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...
“Does My Voice Count?”
The Reconfiguration of Myth and Gender in Monique Roffey’s The Mermaid of Black Conch
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The imbrication of depth psychology, textual genealogy, and Postcolonial Studies has not received much attention when healing trauma caused by...
Kanthapura as “India in Microcosm” in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura
Contesting a Misreading
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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...
A Narrative House of Mirrors
Reading Language and the City in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Exit West
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The paper reads The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) and Exit West (2017) as texts of displacement: texts that are about...
Hybridity in Arabic Science Fiction
AbstractThis essay tackles the nuances of establishing Arabic science fiction (ASF) within postcolonial literature. It argues that even though...
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...
“The Face of the Buffalo”: Interspecies Relationality in Nawal El Saadawi’s God Dies by the Nile
AbstractIn several interviews, the Egyptian American writer and feminist Nawal El Saadawi has emphasized her commitment to women’s rights and gender...
“Against Forgetting”
Witnessing and Memory-Making in Agha Shahid Ali’s The Country Without a Post Office
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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...
Book Review
Postcolonial Comics and Graphic Novels
A Review Essay
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Mark McKinney, Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics. Leuven
UP, 2021. Paperback. $74.
Esra Mirze Santesso. Muslim Comics...