Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 53, Issue 6 (2017)

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Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 53, Issue 6 (2017)

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Special Focus: Postcolonial Spatialities

Introduction

Introduction
Introduction: Postcolonial spaces across forms
Madhu Krishnan
Pages: 629-633
Published online: 16 Jan 2018
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Bombay dreams and Bombay nightmares: Spatiality and Bollywood gangster film’s urban underworld aesthetics
Florian Stadtler
Pages: 634-643
Published online: 22 Nov 2017
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“the things not in the picture”: Bombay’s poets and the re-representation of the city
Emma Bird
Pages: 644-658
Published online: 22 Nov 2017
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“I guess that’s another place they’ve ruined for us”: A spatial struggle against the development of commercial tourism in Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place and Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven
Janie Beriault
Pages: 659-672
Published online: 01 Nov 2017
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“Here’s to the grass we step on!”: Complicating the spatial dynamics of the Garden City in Singaporean historical fiction
Samuel Perks
Pages: 673-685
Published online: 27 Nov 2017
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Changing the city after our heart’s desire: Creative protest in Cape Town
Nomusa Makhubu
Pages: 686-699
Published online: 22 Nov 2017
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Editor’s Note

Editor’s Note
Mark Mathuray
Pages: 700-701
Published online: 16 Jan 2018
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Original Articles

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Imagining against the nation state: radical singularity and transnationalism in Nuruddin Farah’s Maps
Mahendran Thiruvarangan
Pages: 702-714
Published online: 09 Aug 2017
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Rhiz(h)oming Achille: Walcott, Glissant, and the politics of relation and creolization
Haleh Zargarzadeh
Pages: 715-728
Published online: 16 May 2017
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Remembering and fictionalizing inhospitable Europe: The experience of Portuguese retornados in Dulce Maria Cardoso’s The Return and Isabela Figueiredo’s Notebook of Colonial Memories
Ana Cristina Mendes
Pages: 729-742
Published online: 23 Aug 2017
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Postcolonial literary geographies: Out of place
Dominic Davies
Pages: 743-744
Published online: 09 Aug 2017
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Literature’s sensuous geographies: Postcolonial matters of place
Jajati K. Pradhan & Seema Singh
Pages: 744-745
Published online: 16 Sep 2016
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New soundings in postcolonial writing: Critical and creative contours
Emma Bird
Pages: 745-746
Published online: 20 Feb 2017
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Reviews

Book Review
Vietnam and the colonial condition of French literature
Oana Panaïté
Pages: 746-747
Published online: 30 Jun 2015
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Born translated: the contemporary novel in an age of world literature
Rose Casey
Pages: 747-748
Published online: 16 May 2016
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The postcolonial intellectual: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in context, Approaches to teaching the works of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Idowu Omoyele
Pages: 748-750
Published online: 21 Apr 2016
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Reading across worlds: transnational book groups and the reception of difference
Paul Sharrad
Pages: 750-751
Published online: 28 Mar 2016
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Reviews

Book Review
Muslim cosmopolitanism in the age of empire
Pramod K. Nayar
Pages: 752-753
Published online: 21 Aug 2015
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Book Reviews

Book Review
The new xenophobia
Om Prakash Dwivedi
Pages: 753-754
Published online: 04 May 2016
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