Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 54, Issue 1 (2018)

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''Minor'' Genres in Postcolonial Literatures

Introduction

Introduction
“Minor” genres in postcolonial literatures: New webs of meaning
Delphine Munos & Bénédicte Ledent
Pages: 1-5
Published online: 27 Feb 2018
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“The advent of a genre”: Crime fiction and the state of the nation in South Africa
Geoffrey V. Davis
Pages: 6-18
Published online: 15 Jan 2018
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From Jay to Bee to Daughter Buffalo: Outlining ekphrasis in the work of Janet Frame
Marc Delrez
Pages: 19-31
Published online: 15 Jan 2018
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Radio drama and its avatars in the work of Caryl Phillips
Bénédicte Ledent
Pages: 32-42
Published online: 10 Jan 2018
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The tremors of genre in G.J. Resink’s poetry
Kris Steyaert
Pages: 43-55
Published online: 22 Jan 2018
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“Keeping my slave side well versed”: Fred D’Aguiar’s use of ottava rima in Bloodlines
Kathie Birat
Pages: 56-68
Published online: 15 Jan 2018
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The danger of a single short story: Reality, fiction and metafiction in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Jumping Monkey Hill”
Daria Tunca
Pages: 69-82
Published online: 22 Jan 2018
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Twisting the Australian realist short story: Murray Bail’s “Camouflage”
Marie Herbillon
Pages: 83-94
Published online: 15 Jan 2018
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Minor genres and marginal realities: Kei Miller’s blog posts and Facebook notes
Rebecca Romdhani
Pages: 95-107
Published online: 15 Jan 2018
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Claiming a hybrid language, seeking a hybrid form: From the vernacular to digital media in Robert Antoni’s As Flies to Whatless Boys (2013)
Robert Antoni
Pages: 108-128
Published online: 27 Feb 2018
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Book Review

Book Review
A brief take on the Australian novel
Tobias McCorkell
Pages: 129-130
Published online: 21 Dec 2017
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Frantz Fanon: toward a revolutionary humanism
Annie Gagiano
Pages: 130-131
Published online: 28 Apr 2016
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The future of postcolonial studies/What is a world: on postcolonial literature as world literature
Jajati K. Pradhan & Seema Singh
Pages: 131-133
Published online: 01 Jun 2016
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Communities in contemporary anglophone Caribbean short stories: postcolonialism across the disciplines; Emigration and Caribbean literature
Melanie A. Murray
Pages: 133-135
Published online: 17 Jun 2016
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Contemporary diasporic South Asian women’s fiction: Gender, narration and globalization
Dominic Davies
Pages: 135-136
Published online: 14 Aug 2017
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Modernism in a global context; D.H. Lawrence’s Australia: Anxiety at the edge of empire; The American Lawrence
Susan Reid
Pages: 136-139
Published online: 11 Aug 2017
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Book Reviews

Book Review
The transnational in English literature: Shakespeare to the modern
Kim Anderson Sasser
Pages: 139-140
Published online: 27 Jun 2016
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Writing British Muslims: religion, class and multiculturalism
Esha Sil
Pages: 140-141
Published online: 01 Jul 2016
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Erratum

Correction
Erratum
Page: x
Published online: 27 Feb 2018
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