Editor's Note
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AbstractEditor's note to volume 12, issue 2 (Fall 2024) of the Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies.
Articles
Kanthapura as “India in Microcosm” in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura
Contesting a Misreading
153–169
AbstractAgainst the backdrop of the Indian freedom struggle, Raja Rao’s Kanthapura touches on the psycho-spiritual idea of India in a rural...
“Against Forgetting”
Witnessing and Memory-Making in Agha Shahid Ali’s The Country Without a Post Office
170–189
AbstractThis paper investigates the witnessing and memory-making functions of the poetry of Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali. Against the backdrop...
A Narrative House of Mirrors
Reading Language and the City in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Exit West
190–209
AbstractThe paper reads The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) and Exit West (2017) as texts of displacement: texts that are about...
Hybridity in Arabic Science Fiction
210–218
AbstractThis essay tackles the nuances of establishing Arabic science fiction (ASF) within postcolonial literature. It argues that even though...
“The Face of the Buffalo”: Interspecies Relationality in Nawal El Saadawi’s God Dies by the Nile
219–234
AbstractIn several interviews, the Egyptian American writer and feminist Nawal El Saadawi has emphasized her commitment to women’s rights and gender...
Boundary Poetics
Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail
235–253
AbstractThis 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
254–275
AbstractThe imbrication of depth psychology, textual genealogy, and Postcolonial Studies has not received much attention when healing trauma caused by...
The Danger of a Single Chronotope
New African Diaspora and Blogging Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
276–297
AbstractIn The Black Atlantic, Paul Gilroy popularized the ship as a salient chronotope for examining...
Book Review
Postcolonial Comics and Graphic Novels
A Review Essay
298–307
AbstractMark McKinney, Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics. Leuven UP, 2021. Paperback. $74.
Esra Mirze Santesso, Muslim...
Notes on Contributors
308–310
AbstractContributor biographies for volume 12, issue 2 (Fall 2024) of the Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies.