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Displacing difference, interrupting Indianness: Song sequences in digitally-released Indian-American films
Damini Kulkarni
Published online: 06 Jun 2024
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Book Review
Science fiction in India: Parallel worlds and postcolonial paradigms
edited by Shweta Khilnani and Ritwick Bhattacharjee, New Delhi, Bloomsbury India, 2022, 276 pp., ₹1002 (ebook), ISBN 9789354353437
Shreyansh Jain & Smita Jha
Published online: 05 Jun 2024
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When the “gormen” (government) – walled up the rivers: Reading Sarah Joseph’s Budhini as contemporary Indian hydrofiction
Varna Venugopal & Swarnalatha Rangarajan
Published online: 28 May 2024
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Funny Boy, postmemorial potentialities, and the queer diasporic Sri Lankan novel
Dinidu Karunanayake
Published online: 27 May 2024
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The racial politics of Afropolitanism and Zukiswa Wanner’s London, Cape Town, Joburg
Marzia Milazzo
Published online: 14 May 2024
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Two London fires and a critique of grievability: Mournful protest, the Black elegy, and Jay Bernard’s Surge (2019)
Lourdes López-Ropero
Published online: 12 May 2024
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The challenge of interviewing Middle East leaders: A first-hand story of my encounters with dictators and dissidents
Ángeles Espinosa
Published online: 07 May 2024
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“Real queens fix each other’s crowns”: The interiorities of Black (British) girlhood in Rocks (2019)
Keisha Bruce
Published online: 07 May 2024
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Generative transcription: The interview in post-World War 2 anglophone African literary culture
Rebecca Roach
Published online: 05 May 2024
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Review Essay

Indian writings in English at present
Bruce King
Published online: 30 Apr 2024
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“Politics of racism” and BrexLit: Questioning the racially labelled entities in Ali Smith’s Autumn
Xiaohui Liang
Published online: 23 Apr 2024
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Traditional land, postcolonial development, and indigenous ecocriticism in Esther Syiem’s poems
Sayantan Chakraborty
Published online: 23 Apr 2024
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Book Review

Book Review
The author as cannibal: Rewriting in francophone literature as a postcolonial genre, 1969–1995
by Felisa Vergara Reynolds, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2022, 288 pp., $60.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-4962-1842-1
Karin Speedy
Published online: 19 Apr 2024
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Interview

Interview
“Our moon has these blood clots, and it is no use hiding them”: In conversation with Rahul Pandita
Madhav Dubey & Nagendra Kumar
Published online: 16 Apr 2024
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Review Essay

Reading Salman Rushdie: The self the nation, and the world
Vijay Mishra
Published online: 16 Apr 2024
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Book Review
Salman Rushdie in context
edited by Florian Stadtler, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 414 pp., £85.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781316514146
Hayley G. Toth
Published online: 16 Apr 2024
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Book Review
Dialect, voice, and identity in Chinese translation: A descriptive study of Chinese translations of Huckleberry Finn, Tess, and Pygmalion
by Jing Yu, London and New York, Routledge, 2023, 234 pp., £104.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-032-02598-8
Ruoyu Dai & Wang Yueyue
Published online: 16 Apr 2024
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Book Review
Performing the Cold War in the postcolonial world: Theatre, film, literature and things
edited by Christopher B. Balme, New York, Routledge, 2023, 264 pp., $136.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781032051581
Min Zhang
Published online: 14 Apr 2024
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Book Review
Interrupted narratives and intersectional representations in Italian postcolonial literature
by Caterina Romeo, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 271 pp., £109.99 (hardback), ISBN 9783031100420
Boy Sembiring & Rengga Daniar
Published online: 11 Apr 2024
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“Abhi Toh Main Jawan Hoon” (For I am forever young): Reflections on the agentic cinematic presence of Zohra Sehgal in British Indian films
Debashrita Dey & Priyanka Tripathi
Published online: 11 Apr 2024
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Interview

Interview
The Kashmiri Pandits’ 1990s exodus: An interview with Siddhartha Gigoo
Simran Koul & Pallavi Thakur
Published online: 27 Mar 2024
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SHORT StORY

Epitaph by her grave
S.D. Brown
Published online: 07 Mar 2024
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Research Article

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Between modernity and modernism: Reading affect in Muktibodh’s translated poetry
Akansha Singh
Published online: 05 Mar 2024
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The rise (in the fall) of Cochin: Provincializing metropolitan spatiality in Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh
Jintu Alias & Soni Wadhwa
Published online: 27 Feb 2024
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Black British love matters: Asserting the transformative power of love in Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour: Mythical Tales Around the World Retold
Irene Pérez-Fernández
Published online: 20 Feb 2024
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“Intersectional perspectives and youthful trauma”: (Re)considering Gauri in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland
Reshmi Lahiri-Roy
Published online: 19 Feb 2024
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Book Review

Book Review
Post-Arab spring narratives: A minor literature in the making
by Abida Younas, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 187 pp., £7950 (eBook), ISBN 9783031279041
Hajar Mahfoodh
Published online: 15 Feb 2024
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Book Review

Book Review
Being there, being here: Palestinian writings in the world
by Maurice Ebileeni, Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press, 2022, 240 pp., $29.95 (paperback), ISBN 9780815637608
Hiyem Cheurfa
Published online: 15 Feb 2024
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Return to innocence? Diaspora screen media and “New Ethnicities” in the moment of diversity
Anamik Saha
Published online: 07 Feb 2024
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Book Review

Book Review
The living mountain: A fable for our times
by Amitav Ghosh, New Delhi, Fourth Estate India, 2022, 48 pp., ₹399 (hardback), ISBN 978-93-5489-887-7
R. Sreejith Varma
Published online: 07 Feb 2024
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Book Review
Smoke and ashes: A writer’s journey through opium’s hidden histories
by Amitav Ghosh, Gurugram, Harper Collins India, 2023, 408 pp., ₹699.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-93-5699-275-7
Sharmila Narayana
Published online: 07 Feb 2024
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Book Review

Book Review
Marginlands: Indian landscapes on the brink
by Arati Kumar-Rao, New Delhi, Picador India, 2023, 240 pp., ₹699 (hardback), ISBN 9789395624435
Sanjeev Vishwakarma
Published online: 02 Feb 2024
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Book Review

Book Review
Representing vulnerabilities in contemporary literature
edited by Miriam Fernandez-Santiago and Cristina M. Gamez-Fernandez, New York, Routledge, 2022, 202 pp., £34.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781032424057
Elina Virokannas
Published online: 02 Feb 2024
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Book Review

Book Review
Literature and the war on terror: Nation, democracy and liberalisation
edited by Sk Sagir Ali, Abingdon, Routledge, 2023, 224 pp., £36.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-032-42483-5
Pooja Sancheti
Published online: 02 Feb 2024
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Book Review

Book Review
Fatima Meer, choosing to be defiant: Pictures, paintings and politics
by Rajendra Chetty, Pietermaritzburg, Otterley Press, 2022, 120 pp., ₹405.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-6398375-7-4
Sayan Dey
Published online: 02 Feb 2024
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POETRY

Poetry
Majuli
Shibani Phukan
Published online: 04 Jan 2024
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Research Article

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Mapping identity and place in Yongping Li’s The End of the River
Xiaoling Yao
Published online: 18 Dec 2023
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Book review

Book Review
National literature in multinational states
edited by Albert Braz and Paul D. Morris, Edmonton, University of Alberta Press, 2022, 206 pp., £26.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781772126075
Geoffrey MacDonald
Published online: 24 Nov 2023
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Book review

Book Review
Life is not useful
by Ailton Krenak, translated by Alex Brostoff and Jamille Pinheiro Dias, Cambridge, Polity Books, 2023, 96 pp., £40.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781509554041
Kedi Zhao
Published online: 24 Nov 2023
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Book review

Book Review
Graphic migrations: Precarity and gender in India and the diaspora
by Kavita Daiya, Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 2020, 246 pp., $34.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-439-92025-1
Sreyoshi Sarkar
Published online: 23 Nov 2023
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Book review

Book Review
The environmental apocalypse: Interdisciplinary reflections on the climate crisis
edited by Jakub Kowalewski, Abingdon, Routledge, 2022, 280 pp., £34.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781032038063
Jesse van Amelsvoort
Published online: 23 Nov 2023
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Research Article

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Live and let live: The Black 007 in No Time To Die
Rajinder Dudrah
Published online: 09 Nov 2023
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POETRY

Poetry
“Musée de l’absence” and “Postcolonial flâneuse”
Ramisha Rafique
Published online: 06 Nov 2023
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Book review

Book Review
Sensitive reading: The pleasures of South Asian literature in translation
edited by Yigal Bronner and Charles Hallisey, Oakland, University of California Press, 2022, 272 pp., £30.00 (paperback), ISBN 9780520384477
Anita
Published online: 27 Sep 2023
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Book review

Book Review
Spatial boundaries, abounding spaces: Colonial borders in French and francophone literature and film
by Mohit Chandna, Leuven, Leuven University Press, 2021, 302 pp., €28.00 (paperback), ISBN 9789462702738
Jane Hiddleston
Published online: 27 Sep 2023
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Book Review

Book Review
Representations of precarity in South Asian literature in English
edited by Om Prakash Dwivedi, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 300 pp., £89.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-3-031-06816-4
Sanjeev Vishwakarma
Published online: 03 Aug 2023
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Poetry

Poetry
At Dalton’s Bar, surrounded by alaala
Lawdenmarc Decamora
Published online: 02 Aug 2023
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Book Review

Book Review
Decolonising English studies from the semi-periphery
by Ana Cristina Mendes, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 255 pp., £79.50 (e-book), ISBN 978-3-031-20286-5
Melissa Kennedy
Published online: 31 Jul 2023
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Poetry

Poetry
An equal death: Satyendranath Dutta’s poem on sati and widow remarriage
Amitendu Bhattacharya
Published online: 19 Jul 2023
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Poetry

Poetry
Yes-colonialism: The European dream
Awu Isaac Oben
Published online: 15 May 2023
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