Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 54, Issue 4 (2018)

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Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 54, Issue 4 (2018)

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Special Focus: Culinary Cultures: Food and The Postcolonial

Introductions

Introduction
Culinary Cultures: Food and the Postcolonial
Sarah Lawson Welsh
Pages: 439-441
Published online: 13 Nov 2018
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Articles

Article
“If I could mix drinks like my grandfather I would be worth marrying”*: Reading race, class and gender in Mrs H. Graham Yearwood’s West Indian and Other Recipes (1911 and 1932)
Sarah Lawson Welsh
Pages: 442-455
Published online: 13 Nov 2018
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“Memories from my mother’s kitchen”: Extinction and anxiety in Joudie Kalla’s Palestine on a Plate
Shelley Angelie Saggar
Pages: 456-468
Published online: 13 Nov 2018
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“A taste of elsewhere”: Consuming the exotic in Simone Lazaroo’s Sustenance
Astrid Schwegler Castañer
Pages: 469-483
Published online: 13 Nov 2018
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Covert communications: Food in transition in Ritesh Batra’s the Lunchbox
Muzna Rahman
Pages: 484-497
Published online: 13 Nov 2018
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Poetry

Poetry
Two poems by Alecia McKenzie
Alecia McKenzie
Pages: 498-500
Published online: 13 Nov 2018
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Editor’s note

Editor’s note
Chris Ringrose
Pages: 501-503
Published online: 13 Nov 2018
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Original Articles

Article
A serious television trickster: Ken Saro-Wiwa’s political and artistic legacy in Basi and Company
James Hodapp
Pages: 504-514
Published online: 08 Jan 2018
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Representing the neocolonial destruction of the Niger Delta: Helon Habila’s Oil on Water (2011)
Maximilian Feldner
Pages: 515-527
Published online: 23 Apr 2018
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Article
Seeing double in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People: Local toxins, global toxicity and the universal Bhopal
Deb Donig
Pages: 528-541
Published online: 10 Jan 2018
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“Remember the ship”: Narrating the Empire Windrush
Hannah Lowe
Pages: 542-555
Published online: 22 Jan 2018
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Interview

Discussion
“Survival – to keep writing”: An interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Joe Upton
Pages: 556-564
Published online: 15 Jan 2018
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Poetry

Poetry
Shadow Lines
Mohammad Shafiqul Islam
Page: 565
Published online: 05 May 2017
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Book Review

Book Review
Contemporary asylum narratives: representing refugees in the twenty-first century
Mariangela Palladino
Pages: 566-567
Published online: 17 Jun 2016
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New Zealand’s Empire
Dominic Alessio
Pages: 567-568
Published online: 07 Dec 2016
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From North Africa to France: Family migration in text and film: Democracy at home in South Africa: Family fictions and transitional culture
Annie Gagiano
Pages: 568-570
Published online: 09 Jan 2017
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Neoliberalism and cultural transition in New Zealand literature, 1984‒2008: market fictions
Melissa Kennedy
Pages: 570-571
Published online: 17 Jan 2017
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Book Review
Postcolonial Europe? Essays on post-communist literatures and cultures
Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru
Pages: 571-572
Published online: 01 Mar 2017
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Book Review
Final cut
Karthika Naïr
Pages: 573-574
Published online: 30 Mar 2017
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Book Review
Meeting without knowing it: Kipling and Yeats at the fin de siècle
David Sergeant
Pages: 574-575
Published online: 26 Apr 2017
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