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Special Issue: Chinese Diasporic Writing and Culture Guest Editors: Jonathan Locke Hart, and Shang Wu
Volume 59, Issue 6, 2023 pages 711-855
Special Focus: Robinson Crusoe Guest Editor: Claire Reddleman
Volume 59, Issue 4, 2023 pages 413-575
Special Issue: Secularism in the Literary Marketplace; Guest Editors: Rehana Ahmed and Peter Morey
Volume 59, Issue 3, 2023 pages 271-412
Special Focus: Bangladeshi Literature in English; Guest Editors: Mohammad A. Quayum and Md. Mahmudul Hasan
Volume 58, Issue 6, 2022 pages 733-888
Special Issue: Intersectional Italy; Guest Editors: Caterina Romeo and Giulia Fabbri
Volume 58, Issue 5, 2022 pages 585-731
Special Issue: Fractured Identities
Volume 58, Issue 2, 2022 pages 147-292
Special Issue: Malaysian Literature in English
Volume 57, Issue 5, 2021 pages 583-733
Special Issue: European Peripheries
Volume 57, Issue 3, 2021 pages 291-435
Special Issue: Han Suyin: Literature, Politics and Translation. Guest Editors: Feng Cui, Alex Tickell and Luke Kang Kwong Kapathy
Volume 57, Issue 2, 2021 pages 147-290
Special Focus: Liminal Diasporas
Volume 57, Issue 1, 2021 pages 1-145
Special Issue: Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains
Volume 56, Issue 5, 2020 pages 585-730
Special Issue: Challenging Precarity
Volume 56, Issue 4, 2020 pages 439-584
Special Issue: New Zealand and the Globalization of Culture
Volume 56, Issue 2, 2020 pages 147-292
Special Issue: Diasporic Trajectories: Charting new critical perspectives
Volume 55, Issue 6, 2019 pages 731-876
Special Focus: Postcolonial Sexuality
Volume 55, Issue 3, 2019 pages 293-438
Special Focus: Eco-fictions: Emergent Discourses and Nature and the Environment in Postcolonial Literature
Volume 55, Issue 2, 2019 pages 147-292
Special issue: Refugee Literature
Volume 54, Issue 6, 2018 pages 721-852
Special Issue: Pacific Waves: Reverberations from Oceania
Volume 54, Issue 5, 2018 pages 577-719
Special Focus: Culinary Cultures: Food and The Postcolonial
Volume 54, Issue 4, 2018 pages 439-575
Special issue: Delhi: New writings on the megacity
Volume 54, Issue 3, 2018 pages 297-437
''Minor'' Genres in Postcolonial Literatures
Volume 54, Issue 1, 2018 pages 1-x
Special Focus: Postcolonial Spatialities
Volume 53, Issue 6, 2017 pages 629-754
Special Issue: Resistant Resources/Resources of Resistance: World-Literature, World-Ecology and Energetic Materialism
Volume 53, Issue 3, 2017 pages 265-395
The Worlds of Bombay Poetry
Volume 53, Issue 1-2, 2017 pages iii-263
Asian Australian Writing
Volume 52, Issue 5, 2016 pages 527-640
Trans/forming literature: graphic novels, migration and postcolonial identity
Volume 52, Issue 4, 2016 pages 377-526
The Worldliness of Cricket and its Literature
Volume 52, Issue 3, 2016 pages 245-376
al-Andalus
Volume 52, Issue 2, 2016 pages 127-243
Beyond Britishness
Volume 52, Issue 1, 2016 pages 1-126
SPECIAL FOCUS: JANET FRAME: TEN YEARS ON
Volume 51, Issue 5, 2015 pages 503-627

Special issue information

Special Issues of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing

Each year, some JPW issues are devoted to guest-edited Special Issues on a particular thematic or regional focus. Each Special Issue usually comprises around nine articles at c.7,000 words each (63,000 words in total) plus an introduction of c.2000 words written by the Guest Editor(s) and book reviews chosen by the JPW Reviews Editor.

In addition to articles, past Special Issues have included:

  • Interviews with and profiles of postcolonial writers and theorists
  • Selections of creative writing: poetry and short prose fiction
  • Archival material relevant to the critical articles accepted for publication

'Special Focus' Topics

There is also the possibility of publishing as a 'Special Focus' topics comprising fewer than nine articles (e.g. four or five) with an independent introduction by the Focus Guest Editor. This is published along with a cluster of 'ordinary' articles.

Past special issues and special focus topics can be read above ( www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjpw20/special-issues).

Proposals

Please contact the Special Issues Editor Paul Veyret at [email protected]to pitch your special issue idea and obtain a copy of the proposal form.