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Imaginary Europes
Volume 51, Issue 2, 2015 pages 127-252
Postcolonial Thresholds: Gateways and Borders
Volume 51, Issue 1, 2015 pages 1-125
Includes special section: Post/colonial temporalities in modernist writing
Volume 50, Issue 6, 2014 pages 631-ebi
Alternative Solidarities: Black Diasporas and Cultural Alliances during the Cold War (Guest editors: Monica Popescu, Cedric Tolliver and Julie Tolliver)
Volume 50, Issue 4, 2014 pages 379-503
Palestine and the Postcolonial: Culture, Creativity, Theory
Volume 50, Issue 2, 2014 pages 127-252
The Global Checkpoint: "Rights" of Passage, Performances of Sovereignty
Volume 50, Issue 1, 2014 pages 1-125
Networking the Globe: New Technologies and the Postcolonial
Volume 49, Issue 5, 2013 pages 503-ebi
"-Scapes" of Globality in the Work of Wilson Harris
Volume 49, Issue 2, 2013 pages 127-250
Postcolonial Studies and World Literature
Volume 48, Issue 5, 2012 pages 465-ebi
Orientalism and terrorism: Theory, text, and images after 9/11
Volume 48, Issue 3, 2012 pages 233-339
On Colonialism, Communism and East-Central Europe - some reflections
Volume 48, Issue 2, 2012 pages 113-232
Tracing the Urban Imaginary in the Postcolonial Metropolis and the "New" Metropolis
Volume 47, Issue 5, 2011 pages 483-ebi
Egyptian Literary Culture and Egyptian Modernity
Volume 47, Issue 4, 2011 pages 369-482
Beyond Geography: Literature, Politics and Violence in Pakistan
Volume 47, Issue 2, 2011 pages 119-254
Beyond the Law: Postcolonial Writing, Legality and Legitimacy
Volume 46, Issue 5, 2010 pages 439-ebi
“Migration and Terrorism – A special issue guest edited by Stephen Morton” and “Literary Responses to the War on Terror – A special issue guest edited by Robert Spencer and Anastasia Valassopoulos”
Volume 46, Issue 3-4, 2010 pages 241-438
Postcolonial Masculinities
Volume 45, Issue 3, 2009 pages 243-360
Rerouting the Postcolonial
Volume 45, Issue 2, 2009 pages 121-242
New Directions in Postcolonial Studies
Volume 44, Issue 3, 2008 pages 221-318
AFRICAN CITY TEXTUALITIES
Volume 44, Issue 1, 2008 pages 1-100
Literature as Resistance: Challenging Religious, Linguistic, Casteist, Racist and Sexist Essentialism
Volume 43, Issue 2, 2007 pages 119-241
Divided Time: India and the End of Diaspora
Volume 42, Issue 2, 2006 pages 125-255
Transcultural Hoaxes
Volume 40, Issue 2, 2004 pages 3-ebi
“Commonwealth” Literatures in Germany
Volume 24, Issue 1, 1984 pages 1-ebi
The Commonwealth in Canada
Volume 21, Issue 2, 1982 pages 205-ebii

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.