Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 58, Issue 2 (2022)

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Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 58, Issue 2 (2022)

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Special Issue: Fractured Identities

Introduction

Introduction
Living in dystopia: Fractured identities and COVID-19
Om Prakash Dwivedi & Aleks Wansbrough
Pages: 147-155
Published online: 06 Apr 2022
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Research Article

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Pandemic: Invisibility and silence
Seán Cubitt
Pages: 156-166
Published online: 05 Apr 2022
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Thinking the delirious pandemic governance by numbers with Samit Basu’s Chosen Spirits and Prayaag Akbar’s Leila
Tereza Østbø Kuldova
Pages: 167-182
Published online: 01 Apr 2022
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Infection rebellion in Bina Shah’s Before She Sleeps
Claire Chambers & Freya Lowden
Pages: 183-198
Published online: 04 Apr 2022
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The Adivasi and the undead: From (post)colonial carnage to Necrocene apocalypse in Betaal (2020)
Johan Höglund
Pages: 199-211
Published online: 04 Apr 2022
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Septopia and the wastialized Other: Allegorizing neo-liberalism in the age of COVID-19
Aleks Wansbrough
Pages: 212-225
Published online: 04 Apr 2022
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Fragmentations, phantom limbs, re-memberings: Negotiating bodies, representation, and subjectivity in Caribbean British writing
Silvia Gerlsbeck
Pages: 226-239
Published online: 08 Oct 2021
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Flattening the curse: Cooling down with Zadie Smith’s Intimations
Pallavi Rastogi
Pages: 240-252
Published online: 31 Mar 2022
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The art of COVID-19
Pramod K. Nayar
Pages: 253-264
Published online: 04 Apr 2022
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Review Essay

Book Review
Consider the whale
Colonialism, culture, whales: The cetacean quartet, by Graham Huggan, New York and London, Bloomsbury, 2018, 152 pp., £26.09 (paperback), ISBN 9781350010895
Pablo Mukherjee
Pages: 265-268
Published online: 06 Dec 2021
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Book Review

Book Review
Creative lives: Interviews with contemporary South-Asian diaspora writers
Bruce King
Pages: 269-273
Published online: 11 May 2022
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Facing the planetary: Entangled humanism and the politics of swarming
by William E. Connolly, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2017, 240 pp., $25.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8223-7325-4
Matthew Whittle
Pages: 273-274
Published online: 23 Aug 2021
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Politicising world literature: Egypt, between pedagogy and the public
, by May Hawas, New York, Routledge, 2019, 222 pp., £120 (Hardback), ISBN 9781138327627
Hajar Mahfoodh
Pages: 274-275
Published online: 24 Aug 2021
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Allegories of the Anthropocene
Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2019, 280 pp., $26.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-4780-0471-4
Jessica Maufort
Pages: 275-277
Published online: 23 Aug 2021
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Book Review
Our freedoms: Essays and stories from India’s best writers
edited by Nilanjana S. Roy, New Delhi, Juggernaut, 2021, 292 pp., Rp 599 (paperback), ISBN 9789353451455
Bruce King
Pages: 277-278
Published online: 23 Aug 2021
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Book Review
Literatures of liberalisation: Global circulation and the long nineteenth century
by Regenia Gagnier, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 247 pp., €74.99 (hardback), ISBN 9783319984186
Daniel Chukwuemeka
Pages: 278-279
Published online: 23 Aug 2021
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Book Review
Creative radicalism: Culture and the Arab left after the uprising
by Caroline Rooney, London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020, 240 pp., $17.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-83-860152-2
May Ali A. Al-Sahib
Pages: 279-280
Published online: 23 Aug 2021
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Book Review
Ishtyle: Accenting gay Indian nightlife
, by Kareem Khubchandani, Michigan, University of Michigan Press, 2020, 286 pp., $34.95 (paperback), ISBN 9780472054213
Rohit Chakraborty
Pages: 280-281
Published online: 23 Aug 2021
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Temporary marriage in Iran: Gender and body politics in modern Iranian film and literature
, by Claudia Yaghoobi, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 308 pp., £77.25 (hardback), ISBN 978 1 108 48810 5
Elham Naeej
Page: 282
Published online: 23 Aug 2021
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Book Review
The disposition of nature: Environmental crisis and world literature
by Jennifer Wenzel, New York, Fordham University Press, 2020, 352 pp., $32.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-823-28677-5
Jesse van Amelsvoort
Pages: 283-284
Published online: 24 Aug 2021
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Book Review
Critical lives: Rabindranath Tagore
by Bashabi Fraser, London, Reaktion Books, 2019, 248 pp., £11.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781789141498
Martin Kämpchen
Pages: 284-285
Published online: 03 Dec 2021
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Book Review

Book Review
Empires of the mind: The colonial past and the politics of the present
by Robert Gildea, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 358 pp., £12.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781316612330
Dominic Alessio
Pages: 285-286
Published online: 03 May 2022
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Green unpleasant land: Creative responses to rural England’s colonial connections
by Corinne Fowler, Leeds, Peepal Tree Press, 324 pp., £19.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781845234829
Dominic Davies
Pages: 286-287
Published online: 02 May 2022
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Colonialism, transnationalism, and anarchism in the south of the Mediterranean
by Laura Galián, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 218 pp., £74.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-3-030-45448-7
Fouad Mami
Pages: 287-288
Published online: 02 May 2022
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Glocal narratives of resilience
edited by Ana Maria Fraile-Marcos, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2020, 230 pp., £120.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780367261337
Peter Arnds
Pages: 289-290
Published online: 03 May 2022
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Trauma and transformation in African literature
by J. Roger Kurtz, New York and London, Routledge, 2021, 198 pp., £96.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781138205239
Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy
Pages: 290-291
Published online: 02 May 2022
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The Routledge companion to Australian literature
edited by Jessica Gildersleeve, New York and London, Routledge, 2021, 470 pp., £190.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780367643560
Lukas Klik
Pages: 291-292
Published online: 03 May 2022
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