Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 57, Issue 1 (2021)

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Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 57, Issue 1 (2021)

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Special Focus: Liminal Diasporas

Preface

The right to stay and the right to move
Ashley Dawson
Pages: 1-3
Published online: 01 Feb 2021
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Introduction

Introduction
Liminal diasporas in the era of COVID-19
Rahul K. Gairola, Sarah Courtis & Tim Flanagan
Pages: 4-12
Published online: 01 Feb 2021
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Picturing precarity: Diasporic belonging and camp life in Leila Abdelrazaq’s Baddawi
Bidisha Banerjee
Pages: 13-30
Published online: 11 Jan 2021
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“Leave to quit boundaries”: Danger, precarity, and queer diasporas in the South Asian Caribbean
Christopher Ian Foster
Pages: 31-46
Published online: 18 Jan 2021
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Nostalgia, identity, and homeland: Reading the narratives of the diaspora in Susan Abulhawa’s fiction
Payel Pal
Pages: 47-59
Published online: 18 Jan 2021
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Disabled movement beyond metaphor in Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table and Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea
Luke Brown
Pages: 60-74
Published online: 06 Jul 2020
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Narrating global asymmetries of power: Children’s play/games and photography in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names
Felix Ndaka
Pages: 75-88
Published online: 09 Jul 2020
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Necropolitics in a post-apocalyptic zombie diaspora: The case of AMC’s The Walking Dead
Lauren O’Mahony, Melissa Merchant & Simon Order
Pages: 89-103
Published online: 18 Jan 2021
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Editor’s note

Editor’s note
Chris Ringrose
Pages: 104-105
Published online: 01 Feb 2021
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Articles

Article
Writing and reading Zimbabwe in the global literary market: A case of four novelists
Isaac Ndlovu
Pages: 106-120
Published online: 19 Dec 2020
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Decolonizing the museum: Leila Aboulela’s “The Museum”
Anupama Arora
Pages: 121-134
Published online: 01 Dec 2020
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Poetry

Three poems by Shanta Acharya
Shanta Acharya
Pages: 135-137
Published online: 04 Oct 2020
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Review Essay

Distinguished and other voices
Bruce King
Pages: 138-141
Published online: 01 Sep 2020
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Book Reviews

Book Review
What survives is the singing
by Shanta Acharya, Devon, Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2020, 82 pp., £9.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781912876211
Martyn Crucefix
Pages: 142-143
Published online: 21 Dec 2020
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Book Review
The critic as amateur
edited by Saikat Majumdar and Aarthi Vadde, New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, 279 pp., $23.99 USD (paperback), ISBN 978-1-5013-4141-0
Ruchi Mundeja
Pages: 143-144
Published online: 19 May 2020
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Book Review
From surviving to living: voice, trauma and witness in Rwandan women’s writing
by Catherine Gilbert, Montpellier, Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2018, 294 pp., €27.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-2-36781-268-7
Chijioke Kizito Onah
Pages: 144-145
Published online: 03 Jul 2020
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