Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 57, Issue 3 (2021)

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Special Issue: European Peripheries

Introduction

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European peripheries in the postcolonial literary imagination
Janine Hauthal & Anna-Leena Toivanen
Pages: 291-301
Published online: 11 Jun 2021
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Imagining the European periphery: Post-war Croatia in Aminatta Forna’s The Hired Man
Janine Hauthal
Pages: 302-315
Published online: 14 May 2021
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On the periphery: Contemporary exile fiction and Hungary
Ágnes Györke
Pages: 316-329
Published online: 18 May 2021
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Dark, Almost Night by Joanna Bator as a (hi)story of the peripheral European city of Wałbrzych/Waldenburg
Marta Frątczak-Dąbrowska
Pages: 330-343
Published online: 18 May 2021
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Strasbourg, the crossroads and the borderline: Poetics of heterotopia in contemporary literature
Tsivia Frank Wygoda
Pages: 344-357
Published online: 11 May 2021
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Afroeuropean peripheral mobilities in francophone African literatures
Anna-Leena Toivanen
Pages: 358-371
Published online: 18 May 2021
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Postcolonial social dramas in European provincial towns: Frank Westerman’s literary journalism
Lucio De Capitani
Pages: 372-385
Published online: 18 May 2021
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Writing an(Other) Europe: Challenging peripheries in Chika Unigwe’s fiction on Belgium
Patricia Bastida-Rodríguez & Elisabeth Bekers
Pages: 386-400
Published online: 20 May 2021
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Entangled peripheries: Spatial agency in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet and Caryl Phillips’s The Lost Child
Judith Rahn
Pages: 401-414
Published online: 17 May 2021
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Mobilities and Mediterranean peripheries: Narrating Maltese identities in Vincent Vella’s Slippery Steps
Jopi Nyman
Pages: 415-428
Published online: 14 May 2021
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Recoding world literature: libraries, print culture, and Germany’s pact with books
by B. Venkat Mani, New York, Fordham University Press, 2017, 348 pp., $28.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8232-7341-6
Vedita Cowaloosur
Pages: 429-430
Published online: 03 Jul 2020
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Affective disorders: emotion in colonial and postcolonial literature
by Bede Scott, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2019, 200 pp., £24.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-786-94170-1
Alice Millington
Pages: 430-431
Published online: 01 Nov 2020
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World literature, neoliberalism, and the culture of discontent
edited by Sharae Deckard and Stephen Shapiro, 2019, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 269 pp., £79.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-3030054403
Ann Ang
Pages: 431-432
Published online: 01 Nov 2020
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Poetics and politics of shame in English literature
edited by David Attwell, Annalisa Pes, and Susanna Zinato, New York, Routledge, 2019, 232 pp., £96.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780367193102
Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy
Pages: 432-433
Published online: 01 Nov 2020
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Inlays of subjectivity: affect and action in modern Indian literature
by Nikhil Govind, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2019, 224 pp., £35.99 (hardback), ISBN 9780199498727
E. Dawson Varughese
Pages: 433-434
Published online: 01 Nov 2020
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Transnational narratives in Englishes of exile
edited by Catalina Florina Florescu and Sheng-mei Ma, London, Lexington Books, 2018, 263 pp., $105.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-4985-3945-6
Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández
Pages: 434-435
Published online: 01 Nov 2020
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