Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 52, Issue 5 (2016)

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Asian Australian Writing

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Introduction
Introduction: Realigning the margins: Asian Australian writing
Janet Wilson & Chandani Lokugé
Pages: 527-532
Published online: 08 Dec 2016
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Poison, polygamy and postcolonial politics: The first Chinese Australian novel
Zhong Huang & Wenche Ommundsen
Pages: 533-544
Published online: 08 Dec 2016
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(Not) being at home: Hsu Ming Teo’s Behind the Moon (2005) and Michelle de Kretser’s Questions of Travel (2012)
Janet Wilson
Pages: 545-558
Published online: 08 Dec 2016
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Mediating literary borders: Sri Lankan writing in Australia
Chandani Lokugé
Pages: 559-571
Published online: 08 Dec 2016
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Tourists, travellers, refugees: An interview with Michelle De Kretser
Alexandra Watkins
Pages: 572-580
Published online: 08 Dec 2016
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The diasporic slide: representations of second-generation diasporas in Yasmine Gooneratne’s A Change of Skies (1991) and in Chandani Lokugé’s If the Moon Smiled (2000) and Softly as I Leave You (2011)
Alexandra Watkins
Pages: 581-594
Published online: 08 Dec 2016
AbstractforThe diasporic slide: representations of second-generation diasporas in Yasmine Gooneratne’s A Change of Skies (1991) and in Chandani Lokugé’s If the Moon Smiled (2000) and Softly as I Leave You (2011) | Full Text | References | PDF (884.3 KB)
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Original Articles

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“The root of all evil”? Transnational cosmopolitanism in the fiction of Dewi Anggraeni, Simone Lazaroo and Merlinda Bobis
Paul Giffard-Foret
Pages: 595-609
Published online: 20 Jul 2016
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Merlinda Bobis’s Fish-Hair Woman: Showcasing Asian Australianness, putting the question of justice in its place
Dolores Herrero
Pages: 610-621
Published online: 18 Aug 2016
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Re-storying the past, re-imagining the future in Adib Khan’s Homecoming and Spiral Road
Stefano Mercanti
Pages: 622-633
Published online: 12 Oct 2016
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Book Review

Book Review
Reworking postcolonialism: globalization, labour and rights
Robert Spencer
Pages: 634-635
Published online: 01 Dec 2015
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Postcolonial traumas: memory, narrative, resistance
Paul Sharrad
Pages: 635-636
Published online: 29 Mar 2016
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Caribbean globalizations, 1492 to the present day: The intimacies of four continents
Michael Niblett
Pages: 636-638
Published online: 16 Sep 2016
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Review

Book Review
Exoticizing the past in contemporary neo-historical fiction
Dougal McNeill
Pages: 638-639
Published online: 30 Jun 2015
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Book Review

Book Review
Iberian visions of the Pacific Ocean, 1507–1899
Dominic Alessio
Pages: 639-640
Published online: 20 Oct 2016
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