Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 55, Issue 6 (2019)

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Special Issue: Diasporic Trajectories: Charting new critical perspectives

Obituary

Obituary
In Memoriam Professor Geoffrey V. Davis
Janet M. Wilson
Page: 731
Published online: 27 Dec 2019
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Introduction

Introduction
Diasporic trajectories: Charting new critical perspectives
Françoise Král, Sam Coombes & Corinne Bigot
Pages: 732-742
Published online: 27 Dec 2019
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Poetics and the geopolitics of knowledge: From colonial to global
Claire Joubert
Pages: 743-754
Published online: 27 Dec 2019
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Epistemological fractures: The decline of western paradigms. Beyond the current epistemic hegemony?
Rada Iveković
Pages: 755-768
Published online: 27 Dec 2019
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Glissant and diaspora studies
Sam Coombes
Pages: 769-781
Published online: 27 Dec 2019
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“Dead men tell no tales, but dead white men document plenty”: Imagining the Middle Passage in Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River and Fred D’Aguiar’s Feeding the Ghosts
Abigail Ward
Pages: 782-794
Published online: 27 Dec 2019
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Diasporic culinary trajectories: Mapping food zones and food routes in first-generation South Asian and Caribbean culinary memoirs
Corinne Bigot
Pages: 795-807
Published online: 27 Dec 2019
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From sojourners to citizens: The poetics of space and ontology in diasporic Chinese literature from Aotearoa/New Zealand
Michelle Keown
Pages: 808-823
Published online: 27 Dec 2019
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Making sense of memory in the writings of the Caribbean diaspora: Sam Selvon’s London calypso
Kathie Birat
Pages: 824-835
Published online: 27 Dec 2019
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Polyglossing in English: The diasporic trajectories of the English language
Françoise Král
Pages: 836-849
Published online: 27 Dec 2019
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Postcolonial untranslatability: Reading Achille Mbembe with Barbara Cassin
Michael Syrotinski
Pages: 850-862
Published online: 27 Dec 2019
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Afterword

Chronotopes and fractals: An afterword to a special issue on diasporic trajectories
Robin Cohen
Pages: 863-865
Published online: 27 Dec 2019
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Review Article

Review Article
The Testaments; Quichotte; Machines Like Me and People Like You
Bruce King
Pages: 866-871
Published online: 27 Dec 2019
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Islamophobia and the novel
by Peter Morey, New York, Columbia University Press, 2018, 328 pp., £47.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780231541336
Samina Akhtar
Pages: 872-873
Published online: 08 Oct 2019
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Literary primitivism
by Ben Etherington, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2017, 240 pp., $65 (hardback), ISBN 9781503602366
Erik Camayd-Freixas
Pages: 873-874
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Multilingualism and the twentieth-century novel: polyglot passages
by James Reay Williams, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 202 pp., £59.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-3-030-05809-8
Jesse van Amelsvoort
Pages: 874-875
Published online: 08 Oct 2019
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The rise of autobiographical medical poetry and the medical humanities
by Johanna Emeney, Stuttgart, ibidem Press, 2018, 200 pp., $40 (paperback), ISBN 9783838211282
Stephanie Yorke
Pages: 875-876
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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