Journal of Postcolonial Writing

Hair politics in the blogosphere: Safe spaces and the politics of self-representation in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah

Sonic figures of heroism and the 1891 Hehe–German war in Mulokozi’s novel Ngome ya Mianzi

Serving in the Indian diaspora: The transnational domestic servant in contemporary women’s fiction

Indigenous temporality and climate change in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria (2006)

NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2013): Mobilities and the Afropolitan picaresque

Sexuality and statelessness: Queer migrations and national identity in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room

Other ways to treat an animal: Natural horsemanship and the ethnic other

A cherished and long relationship: Heinemann and Chinua Achebe from Things Fall Apart to Anthills of the Savannah

Reproducing, mothering and caretaking: Forms of resistance in Ahdaf Soueif’s In the Eye of the Sun

“Literature is the best antidote to fundamentalism”: Tabish Khair in conversation with Goutam Karmakar

Queer eyes and gendered violence in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India

Moving in “a forest of hieroglyphs”: Enigmatic and mutable signs of identity in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light

Performances of motherhood and migration: Addressing the silences of gendered waiting in two South African plays

Opium cities, carbon routes: World-ecological prehistory in Amitav Ghosh’s Hong Kong

“Dead men tell no tales, but dead white men document plenty”: Imagining the Middle Passage in Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River and Fred D’Aguiar’s Feeding the Ghosts

White gay men in two post-9/11 novels: “Cultural surveillance” and historical echoes

Urdu poetry, 1935–1970: The progressive episode

Breaking the script: The generational conjuncture in the anglophone Palestinian novel

Decolonizing cultural memory in Andrea Levy’s Small Island

On rights, ruins and returns: Rachel Tzvia Back’s Israeli anglophone lyric palimpsest

Chronotopes and fractals: An afterword to a special issue on diasporic trajectories

The impossibility of leaving: Queer migration and Shyam Selvadurai’s The Hungry Ghosts

Two views of an inevitable catastrophe that did not take place: Werner Herzog and Daniel Maximin on Guadeloupe, 1976

Nature in contemporary Malaysian life-writings in English

The politics of representation and the “ideal Malayalee woman”: Remembering Malayalam women’s magazines of the early 20th-century Kerala, South India

A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Tropics of abjection: Figures of violence and the Afro-Caribbean semiotic

Glissant and diaspora studies

Draupadi returns with a vengeance

Afterword

Diasporic culinary trajectories: Mapping food zones and food routes in first-generation South Asian and Caribbean culinary memoirs

Literary non-fiction and the neo-liberal city: Subalternity and urban governance in Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Desire under conflict: The potential for queer in Hoda Barakat’s The Stone of Laughter

Editor’s note

Editor’s note

Editor’s note

Multilingualism and the twentieth-century novel: polyglot passages

Epistemological fractures: The decline of western paradigms. Beyond the current epistemic hegemony?

Poetics and the geopolitics of knowledge: From colonial to global

Making sense of memory in the writings of the Caribbean diaspora: Sam Selvon’s London calypso

The aesthetic terrain of settler colonialism: Katherine Mansfield and Anton Chekhov’s natives

Postcolonial/sexuality, or, sexuality in “Other” contexts: Introduction

Language, gender and orientalist rhetoric in American fiction and travel writing on the US conquest and colonization of the Philippines (1898–1929)

The Nigerian email scam novel

“Now I’m a real Mumbai-Wallah!” An interview with Hemant Divate

Living in paradise: The ecological conscience of contemporary Anglo-Guyanese fiction as seen through the examples of Dark Swirl, The Ventriloquist’s Tale and The Timehrian

Wizard of the Crow (2006) by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o as a postcommunist novel