Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 56, Issue 5 (2020)

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Special Issue: Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains

Introduction

Introduction
The colonial remains of Brexit: Empire nostalgia and narcissistic nationalism
Caroline Koegler, Pavan Kumar Malreddy & Marlena Tronicke
Pages: 585-592
Published online: 28 Oct 2020
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Ain’t no black in the (Brexit) Union Jack? Race and empire in the era of Brexit and the Windrush scandal
Ronald Cummings
Pages: 593-606
Published online: 12 Oct 2020
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Warning signs: Postcolonial writing and the apprehension of Brexit
John McLeod
Pages: 607-620
Published online: 16 Sep 2020
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Brexit literature’s present absentees: Triangulating Brexit, anti-Semitism, and the Palestinian crisis
Lindsey Moore
Pages: 621-635
Published online: 23 Sep 2020
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“We are all migrants through time”: History and geography in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West
Shazia Sadaf
Pages: 636-647
Published online: 23 Sep 2020
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“Eastern Europeans” and BrexLit
Vedrana Veličković
Pages: 648-661
Published online: 17 Sep 2020
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Imperial pasts, dystopian futures, and the theatre of Brexit
Marlena Tronicke
Pages: 662-675
Published online: 15 Sep 2020
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The Brexit within: Mapping the rural and the urban in contemporary British fiction
Birte Heidemann
Pages: 676-688
Published online: 22 Sep 2020
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Writing back to Brexit: Refugees, transcultural intertextuality, and the colonial archive
Jan Rupp
Pages: 689-702
Published online: 29 Sep 2020
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(Post)colonial friendships and Empire 2.0: A Brexit reading of Victoria & Abdul
Clelia Clini
Pages: 703-715
Published online: 29 Sep 2020
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Poetry

And Then God Created Oxygen...
Laleh Marvasti
Pages: 716-717
Published online: 18 May 2020
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Of Return
In Memory of K.S. Maniam (1942–2020)
Ngoi Hui Chien
Pages: 718-719
Published online: 11 Jun 2020
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Postcolonial writing?
Bruce King
Pages: 720-721
Published online: 29 Aug 2019
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Logotherapy
by Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 2016, 90 pp., $15.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8032-9067-9
Stephanie Yorke
Pages: 721-722
Published online: 14 Nov 2019
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Place and postcolonial ecofeminism: Pakistani women’s literary and cinematic fictions
by Shazia Rahman, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2019, 246 pp., $60.00 (paperback), ISBN 978 1 4962 1341 9
Nadia Anwar
Pages: 723-724
Published online: 02 Apr 2020
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Purdah and polygamy: life in an Indian Muslim household
by Iqbalunnisa Hussain, edited by Jessica Berman, Karachi, Oxford University Press, 2017, 276 pp., £19.99 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 1994 0756 9
Nadia Anwar
Pages: 724-725
Published online: 03 Apr 2020
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My Van Gogh: a novel
by Chandani Lokugé, Melbourne, Arden Books/Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2019, 161 pp., AD$29.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-925984-17-0
Chris Ringrose
Pages: 725-726
Published online: 03 Apr 2020
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Book Review
On J.M. Coetzee: writers on writers
by Ceridwen Dovey, Melbourne, Black, 2018, 96 pp., $17.99 (hardback), ISBN 9871760640613
Chinmaya Lal Thakur
Pages: 726-727
Published online: 18 May 2020
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Book Review
Indigenous transnationalism: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria
edited by Lynda Ng, Artarmon, Giramondo Press, 2018, 256 pp., $39.99 AUD (paperback), ISBN 9781925336429
Briar Wood
Pages: 728-729
Published online: 18 May 2020
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Dancing with the nation: courtesans in Bombay cinema
by Ruth Vanita, New York and London, Bloomsbury, 2018, 217 pp., £66.50 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-5013-3442-9
Vedita Cowaloosur
Pages: 729-730
Published online: 18 May 2020
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