JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE

The political and aesthetic significance of contemporary Dalit literature

Sacralizing the streets: Pedestrian mapping and urban imaginaries in Teju Cole’s Open City and Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow

Subversive responses to oppression in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

Equality or unity? Black Consciousness, white solidarity, and the new South Africa in Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter and July’s People

Editorial: Why should we read Dalit literature?

Encountering development in East African fiction

The significance of magical realism in the novels of Elechi Amadi

Post-millennial “Indian Fantasy” fiction in English and the question of mythology: Writing beyond the “usual suspects”

Between the plot and plantation: Parahuman ecologies in Fred D’Aguiar’s Children of Paradise

The sea and memory: Poetic reconsiderations of the Zong massacre:

Silence and the ethics of partial empathy in Tahmima Anam’s The Good Muslim:

The symbolic survival of the “living dead”: Narrating the LTTE female fighter in post-war Sri Lankan women’s writing

The village and the city: Dalit feminism in the autobiographies of Baby Kamble and Urmila Pawar

South Africa

Music in Michael Ondaatje’s Divisadero

The Caribbean

Tracking obscenities: Dalit women, devadasis, and the linguistically sexual

Rethinking female sexuality in Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun:

Sri Lanka

Poet and translator: A dialogue between Mudnakudu Chinnaswamy and Rowena Hill

Rethinking the nation: Intersections of race, desire, and love in Irene Sabatini’s The Boy Next Door:

India

Arundhati Roy and the politics of language

Literary criticism as a critique of caste: Ayothee Thass and the Tamil Buddhist past

Malaysia and Singapore

When literature becomes an “enhanced national security threat”: Literary interventions of the “terrorist” and “terrorist” interventions of literature:

Epics as cultural commodities: Comics books of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata:

Desire, sanity and the middlebrow aesthetic: The case of Triveni’s Sharapanjara

Pakistan

Rhythmanalysts of the postcolonial partitioned diaspora: Writing differential Cyprus through Henri Lefebvre and Yi-Fu Tuan:

Inside out: Gender, individualism, and representations of the contemporary South African prison

West Africa

Narrating Dalit womanhood and the aesthetics of autobiography

“I have been in an earthquake”: Epistemic upheaval in Richard Hughes’ A High Wind in Jamaica

Afterword: Publishing an academic edition of From Man to Man or Perhaps Only — in South Africa:

Guest Editorial: Decolonizing English

“Freedom through this strange kind of love”: Impersonal be(com)ing and Barbara Adair’s In Tangier We Killed the Blue Parrot:

Intimate revelations: conversations among ‘evil’ women in Rokeya’s Padmarag

“An act of geographical violence”: Crime, literature, and the colonial compulsion:

Black Victorians, British television drama, and the 1978 adaptation of David Garnett’s The Sailor’s Return

Interview with director Jayan K. Cherian

Annual Bibliography of Commonwealth Literature 2018

Enchanted consumption and the gift(s) of diaspora

“Another high-caste woman beyond his reach”: Cast(e)ing the sexual politics of Manu Joseph’s Serious Men:

Diasporic still life: Midnight at the Dragon Café and the cultural politics of stasis:

The “unimaginable border” and bare life in Eva Hornung’s Dog Boy

“Once upon a time there was a little girl…”: Colonialism, “illegitimacy”, and speciesism in Scott Rankin’s Beasty Girl: The Secret Life of Errol Flynn