Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 52, Issue 4 (2016)

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Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 52, Issue 4 (2016)

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Trans/forming literature: graphic novels, migration and postcolonial identity

Dedication

Dedication
Page: 377
Published online: 18 Nov 2016
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Introduction

Introduction
Introduction: Trans/formation and the graphic novel
Sam Knowles, James Peacock & Harriet Earle
Pages: 378-384
Published online: 18 Nov 2016
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Strange migrations: An essay/interview with Shaun Tan
Harriet Earle
Pages: 385-398
Published online: 13 Oct 2016
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Kinship between “companion species”: A posthuman refiguration of the immigrant condition in Shaun Tan’s The Arrival
Bidisha Banerjee
Pages: 399-414
Published online: 13 Oct 2016
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Reading footnotes: Joe Sacco and the graphic human rights narrative
Charlotta Salmi
Pages: 415-427
Published online: 26 Aug 2016
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Uprooting genealogy in G.B. Tran’s Vietnamerica
Maureen Shay
Pages: 428-444
Published online: 18 Nov 2016
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“My thoughts shifted from the past to the future”: Time and (autobio)graphic representation in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660
James Peacock
Pages: 445-463
Published online: 14 Oct 2016
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Supernatural monsters and neo-Victorian detectives: Capitalism, rationality and affect in Japanese girls’ comics
Waiyee Loh
Pages: 464-480
Published online: 13 Oct 2016
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The forms of history: This Side, That Side, graphic narrative and the partitions of the Indian subcontinent
Pramod K. Nayar
Pages: 481-493
Published online: 13 Oct 2016
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“The cracks of post-liberalized India”: Storying the “New Society” through Banerjee’s The Harappa Files (2011)
E. Dawson Varughese
Pages: 494-509
Published online: 12 Oct 2016
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“Is it manipulative? Sure. But that’s how you tell stories”: The graphic novel, metahistory and the artist in The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
Philip Holden
Pages: 510-523
Published online: 13 Oct 2016
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Postcolonial comics: texts, events, identities
Sarah Newport
Page: 524
Published online: 28 Mar 2016
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Postcolonial life narratives: testimonial transactions
Rachel Bower
Page: 525
Published online: 30 Nov 2015
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Learning Zulu: A secret history of language in South Africa
Simthembile Xeketwana
Page: 526
Published online: 16 Sep 2016
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