Published: 2024-03-19

Elite Power Structures in Karachi

A Neocolonial Reading of Bina Shah’s The 786 Cybercafé

Farkhanda Shahid Khan, Saeeda Nazir
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This study examines the elite power groups in Karachi in Bina Shah’s The 786 Cybercafé (2004) by using the lens of neocolonialism...

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The Marginalized as Conservation’s Detritus

A Postcolonial Perspective

Meenakshi Sharma
Abstract

Colonial rule has had long-lasting impacts on large parts of the world, with direct and indirect transformations brought about in the social...

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“Karnan”

Internal Colonialism as the Symptom of Mimicry

Julie Grandjean
Abstract

Mari Selvaraj’s Karnan represents internal colonialism—defined as regional disparities in socio-economic
development—as an element...

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Modernity in the Malay Archipelago

Unraveling Empire and Europeanness in Hugh Clifford’s Sally (1904) and Louis Couperus’ De stille kracht (1900)

Marijke Denger
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At the turn of the twentieth century, the British and Dutch colonized extensive parts of the Malay Archipelago. They justified imperial...

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Subverting the Archetype

Heterogeneous Masculinities in Contemporary Arab American Women’s Fiction

Rachid Lamghari
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This article examines the heterogeneous Arab masculinities which contemporary Arab American women’s novels offer. This diversity, as this...

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The Paradox of Representation in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People

“Just Words Written on a Page”

Agnibha Banerjee
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This paper performs a close reading of Indra Sinha’s novel Animal’s People to demonstrate how South Asian literary texts are entangled...

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An Ontology of Necropolitical Governance

Otherness and Precarity of the Rohingya in Myanmar

Argha Bhattacharyya, Saswat Samay Das
Abstract

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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