Published: 2025-02-11

Editor's Note

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Hans-Georg Erney

151–152

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Editor's note to volume 12, issue 2 (Fall 2024) of the Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies.

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

Contesting a Misreading

Nakul Kundra

153–169

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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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“Against Forgetting”

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

Junaid Shah Shabir

170–189

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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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A Narrative House of Mirrors

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

Stuti Khanna

190–209

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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

210–218

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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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“The Face of the Buffalo”: Interspecies Relationality in Nawal El Saadawi’s God Dies by the Nile 

Uchechukwu Umezurike, Ademola Adesola

219–234

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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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Boundary Poetics

Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail

Taylor Roberts

235–253

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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

254–275

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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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The Danger of a Single Chronotope

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

Anmol Sahni

276–297

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

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Postcolonial Comics and Graphic Novels

A Review Essay

Suhaan Kiran Mehta

298–307

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


Esra Mirze Santesso, Muslim...

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Notes on Contributors

308–310

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Contributor biographies for volume 12, issue 2 (Fall 2024) of the Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies.

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