Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 59, Issue 4 (2023)

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Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 59, Issue 4 (2023)

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Special Focus: Robinson Crusoe Guest Editor: Claire Reddleman

Introduction

Introduction
Introduction: Robinson Crusoe, Karl Marx and the critique of colonial violence
Claire Reddleman
Pages: 413-417
Published online: 01 Nov 2023
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Research Article

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Robinson Crusoe: After the island
John Hutnyk
Pages: 418-433
Published online: 21 Aug 2023
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Crusoe’s crusade: Marginalia to the war against the devil in Daniel Defoe’s RobinsonCrusoe
Wulf D. Hund
Pages: 434-448
Published online: 10 Jul 2023
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“To dream of a wildness distant from ourselves”: Capitalism, colonialism, and the Robinsonade
Nicole Pepperell
Pages: 449-464
Published online: 06 Sep 2023
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Robinson Crusoe in the Pacific: REFUGIO by Roger Palmer and the Marxian theory of economic character masks
Claire Reddleman
Pages: 465-481
Published online: 08 Aug 2023
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Narrativizing what cannot be told: The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun as a liminal trauma narrative
Izabela Poręba
Pages: 482-496
Published online: 05 Jul 2023
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Archipelagic thinking in Merlinda Bobis’s Fish-Hair Woman corpus
Cheryl Julia Lee
Pages: 497-511
Published online: 28 Mar 2023
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Politics and poetics of (de)colonization in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift (2019)
Cédric Courtois
Pages: 512-524
Published online: 12 Mar 2023
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The flavours of mixing: Postcolonial literary representations of cooking as a feminine mode of creolization
Pauline Amy de la Bretèque
Pages: 525-538
Published online: 08 Aug 2023
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Interview

A conversation with Timothy Brennan
Tayseer Abu Odeh
Pages: 539-555
Published online: 25 Jan 2023
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Review Essay

Caribbean literature in transition
1800–1920
Matthew Whittle
Pages: 556-559
Published online: 20 Mar 2023
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Book Review

Book Review
Hindutva as Political Monotheism
by Anustup Basu, Durham, Duke University Press, 2020, 296 pp., $27.95 (paperback), ISBN 9781478010944
Rohit Chakraborty
Pages: 560-561
Published online: 05 Oct 2022
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Book Review
The Afterlife of al-Andalus: Muslim Iberia in Contemporary Arab and Hispanic Narratives
by Christina Civantos, Albany, State University of New York Press, 2018, 378 pp., US $33.95 (paperback), ISBN 9781438466705
Mounir Saifi
Pages: 561-562
Published online: 03 Oct 2022
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Book Review
The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for A Planet in Crisis
by Amitav Ghosh, Gurugram, Penguin Random House India, 2021, 339 pp., ₹599 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0670095629
Prateek Upreti & Sakshi Semwal
Pages: 562-563
Published online: 05 Oct 2022
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Book Review
Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India
by Akshya Saxena, Princeton, NJ, Princeton UP, 2022, xvii+206 pp., $29.49 (paperback), ISBN 978-0691223131
Vaibhav Iype Parel
Pages: 563-564
Published online: 10 Oct 2022
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Book Review
Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature
by Ato Quayson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 334 pp., $46.75 (hardback), ISBN 9781108830980
Xuesheng Yuan
Pages: 565-566
Published online: 05 Oct 2022
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Book Review
The idea of Indian literature: Gender, genre, and comparative method
by Preetha Mani, Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 2022, 288 pp., $34.95 (hardback), ISBN: 9780810145016
Jie Guo
Pages: 566-567
Published online: 30 Mar 2023
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Book Review
The Cambridge history of world literature (2 vols)
edited by Debjani Ganguly, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 993 pp., £250 (hardback), ISBN 97811084493567
Jesse van Amelsvoort
Pages: 567-568
Published online: 02 Feb 2023
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Book Review
Imagining Kashmir: Emplotment and colonialism
by Patrick Colm Hogan, Lincoln and London, University of Nebraska Press, 2016, 294 pp., $60.00 (hardback and e-book), ISBN: 978-0803288591
Amina Yaqin
Pages: 568-569
Published online: 30 Jan 2023
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Book Review
Inner and outer worlds: Gail Jones’ fiction
edited by Anthony Uhlmann, Sydney, Sydney University Press, 2022, 186 pp., AU$45.00 (paperback), ISBN: 9781743327791
Chengcheng Zhang
Pages: 570-571
Published online: 09 May 2023
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Book Review
Metaphysical exile: On J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus fictions
by Robert Pippin, New York, Oxford University Press, 2021, 144 pp., $74.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780197565940
Chinmaya Lal Thakur
Pages: 571-572
Published online: 31 Jan 2023
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Final frontiers: Science fiction and techno-science in Non-Aligned India
by Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2020, 194 pp., £75.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9781789620283
Ericka Hoagland
Pages: 572-573
Published online: 31 Jan 2023
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Shipwreck narratives: Out of our depth
by Michael Titlestad, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 229 pp., €49.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-3-030-87041-6
Isabel Hofmeyr
Pages: 573-574
Published online: 31 Jan 2023
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Ramayana: A comparative study of Ramakathas
by A.A. Manavalan, translated and edited by C.T. Indra and Prema Jagannathan, New Delhi, Vitasta, 2021, 388 pp., 995 INR (hardback), ISBN: 978-93-86473-71-4
Meenakshi Shivram
Pages: 574-575
Published online: 31 Jan 2023
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