Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 55, Issue 2 (2019)

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Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 55, Issue 2 (2019)

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Special Focus: Eco-fictions: Emergent Discourses and Nature and the Environment in Postcolonial Literature

Introduction

Introduction
A legacy of waste: Reflections on literature and the environment
María Alonso Alonso & María Jesús Cabarcos Traseira
Pages: 147-154
Published online: 03 May 2019
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Polyphony and ecology: The green world in Robert Bringhurst’s New World Suite No. 3
Leonor María Martínez Serrano
Pages: 155-168
Published online: 03 May 2019
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Nature in contemporary Malaysian life-writings in English
Kavitha Ganesan
Pages: 169-181
Published online: 02 May 2019
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Living in paradise: The ecological conscience of contemporary Anglo-Guyanese fiction as seen through the examples of Dark Swirl, The Ventriloquist’s Tale and The Timehrian
Marta Frątczak-Dąbrowska
Pages: 182-194
Published online: 02 May 2019
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Atlantic exchanges: The poetics of dispersal and disposal in Scottish and Caribbean seas
Alexandra Campbell
Pages: 195-208
Published online: 02 May 2019
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“The waste of the empire”: Neocolonialism and environmental justice in Merlinda Bobis’s “The Long Siesta as a Language Primer”
Begoña Simal-González
Pages: 209-222
Published online: 02 May 2019
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Afterword

Afterword
Graham Huggan
Pages: 223-224
Published online: 31 May 2019
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Editor’s Note

Editor’s note
Chris Ringrose
Pages: 225-227
Published online: 31 May 2019
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Article
Reproducing, mothering and caretaking: Forms of resistance in Ahdaf Soueif’s In the Eye of the Sun
Nada Ayad
Pages: 228-239
Published online: 06 Sep 2018
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Shared graves: Empire and trauma in Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil
Sarah O’ Brien
Pages: 240-252
Published online: 15 Oct 2018
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On rights, ruins and returns: Rachel Tzvia Back’s Israeli anglophone lyric palimpsest
Morani Kornberg
Pages: 253-268
Published online: 26 Dec 2018
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“Literature is the best antidote to fundamentalism”: Tabish Khair in conversation with Goutam Karmakar
Goutam Karmakar
Pages: 269-281
Published online: 27 Dec 2018
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Review Essay

Essay
The Transnational?
Bruce King
Pages: 282-289
Published online: 14 May 2019
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Colonial Australian fiction: character types, social formations and the colonial economy
Tobias McCorkell
Pages: 290-291
Published online: 31 May 2019
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The fiction of Tim Winton: earthed and sacred
Tobias McCorkell
Pages: 291-292
Published online: 31 May 2019
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