Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 56, Issue 4 (2020)

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Special Issue: Challenging Precarity

Introduction

Introduction
Planetary precarity and the pandemic
Janet M. Wilson, Om Prakash Dwivedi & Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández
Pages: 439-446
Published online: 27 Jul 2020
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Challenging ecoprecarity in Paolo Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker trilogy
Johan Höglund
Pages: 447-459
Published online: 21 Jun 2020
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Can the subaltern sing? Analogy, alienation and discursive precarity in Derek Walcott’s Omeros
Sneharika Roy
Pages: 460-472
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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Precarity and the stories we tell: Post-truth discourse and Indigenous epistemologies in Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle
Ana María Fraile-Marcos
Pages: 473-487
Published online: 24 May 2020
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“The pained and silent song of a branch”: Ecological precarity in the poetry of Taufiq Ismail and Khairani Barokka
John Charles Ryan
Pages: 488-502
Published online: 24 May 2020
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The fragility of a more-than-human world: Ecological awareness in the poetry of Robert Bringhurst
Leonor María Martínez Serrano
Pages: 503-516
Published online: 28 May 2020
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Precarity, poverty porn and vernacular cosmopolitanism in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names and Meg Vandermerwe’s Zebra Crossing
Cheryl Stobie
Pages: 517-531
Published online: 18 Jun 2020
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Gail Jones’s “The Ocean” (2013) and A Guide to Berlin (2015): A literary challenge to asylum seekers’ precarity
Pilar Royo Grasa
Pages: 532-546
Published online: 16 Jun 2020
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Planetary precarity and feminist environmental art practices in Antarctica
Lisa E. Bloom
Pages: 547-567
Published online: 15 Jul 2020
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Rewilding the world in the postcolonial age: On the nexus between cultural production and species politics
Peter Arnds
Pages: 568-582
Published online: 22 May 2020
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Response

Reply
Response to Michela Borzaga, “Postcolonial Poetics?”
Elleke Boehmer
Pages: 583-584
Published online: 03 Jul 2020
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