Journal of Postcolonial Writing

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Postcolonial Writing is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Introduction: Chinese diasporic writing4
South Asian digital humanities: Postcolonial mediations across technology’s cultural Canon4
“What I really wanted was some rivets, by heaven!” The labours of empire: Work and production in Conrad’s “Youth” and Heart of Darkness4
Rethinking the “postcolonial” in the postcolonial interview3
The poetics of the (un)named city in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West3
Teaching Australia and Japan through Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North3
“To dream of a wildness distant from ourselves”: Capitalism, colonialism, and the Robinsonade3
Robinson Crusoe : After the island3
The idea of Indian literature: Gender, genre, and comparative method The idea of Indian literature: Gender, genre, and comparative method , by Preetha Mani, Evanston, No3
Two Ghazals3
“I wanted to become an Abyssinian”: Rewriting Indro Montanelli’s memories of colonial Africa in Francesca Melandri’s Sangue giusto (2017)2
Climate change and the new polar aesthetics: Artists reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic Climate change and the new polar aesthetics: Artists reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic 2
Digital post/colonial feminism: Poetics and politics of digital literary activism by Arab women2
Ramayana: A comparative study of Ramakathas Ramayana: A comparative study of Ramakathas , by A.A. Manavalan, translated and edited by C.T. Indra and Prema Jagannathan, N2
Debating the Afropolitan2
Marketing stories: Writing with faith and reading in search of spirituality in Elif Shafak’s fiction2
Literature and the Indian working class: Mridula Koshy in conversation2
Askari, colonial encounters, and postcolonial war commemoration inAfterlivesby Abdulrazak Gurnah2
The bleeding border: Stories of Bengal Partition The bleeding border: Stories of Bengal Partition , edited by Joyjit Ghosh and Mir Ahammad Ali, New Delhi, Niyogi Books, 2
The Boochani effect: Public feelings and the limits of refugee authorship2
Modernist transitions: Cultural encounters between British and Bangla modernist fiction from 1910s to 1950s2
Black British/ British Asian diaspora screen media2
The Calcutta kerani and the London clerk in the 19th century: Life, labour, latitude The Calcutta kerani and the London clerk in the 19th century: Life, labour, latitude 2
The Adivasi and the undead: From (post)colonial carnage to Necrocene apocalypse in Betaal (2020)2
“Do not shoot, I’m a B–b–British object!”: Reading David Malouf in Indian universities2
Displaced: Literature of indigeneity, migration, and trauma2
“The right to narrate”: Gazans contest popular geopolitics with film2
Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature , by Ato Quayson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 334 pp., $46.75 (hardback), ISBN 92
Live and let live: The Black 007 in No Time To Die1
The visceral logics of decolonization1
The living mountain: A fable for our times1
Nihilopolitical erasure and resistance of British-born young Muslim women in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire1
Caste pride: Battles for equality in Hindu India1
The interrogation: Interviews at the limit1
She – Manasha1
African literature as world literature1
“Amplifying Black Italian voices”: An interview with Leaticia Ouedraogo1
Metaphysical exile: On J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus fictions Metaphysical exile: On J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus fictions , by Robert Pippin, New York, Oxford University Press, 2021, 141
Reclaiming Arab queerness, debunking white saviors: This Arab is queer, an anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab writers1
Buried in the desert and lost in the city: Gothic spaces in Egyptian feminist writing1
Teaching Māori literature as a tauiwi scholar: A German case study1
Unseen city: The psychic lives of the urban poor Unseen city: The psychic lives of the urban poor , by Ankhi Mukherjee, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 263 1
Materializing grief: The reclamation of loss in Kamila Shamsie’sHome Fire1
The Proverse Prize1
Poetics and politics of relationality in contemporary Australian Aboriginal fiction1
Intersectional environmentalism: Russell C. Leong’s “Azure in Angel City: A Blues Sketch, Part One”1
Post-Arab spring narratives: A minor literature in the making1
Documenting the unarchivable: Minor Detail and the archive of senses1
Khwabnama1
The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for A Planet in Crisis The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for A Planet in Crisis , by Amitav Ghosh, Gurugram, Penguin Random House India, 2021, 331
Mapping the prospect of Bangladeshi writing in English: A conversation with Rashid Askari1
Under postcolonial African skies (excerpts from a ten-poem sequence)1
Ambiguous territory: Revisiting Damon Galgut’s The Good Doctor1
Performing the Cold War in the postcolonial world: Theatre, film, literature and things1
The idea of Indian literature: Gender, genre, and comparative method The idea of Indian literature: Gender, genre, and comparative method , by Preetha Mani, Evanston, No1
Fatima Meer, choosing to be defiant: Pictures, paintings and politics1
World literature and postcolonial studies1
Ambivalence, division, and critique: The collaborator in British Palestinian political thrillers1
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan’s Postcolonial Banter and the paradoxes of spoken-word poetry1
“Griffus ou non griffus”: Naming, baptism, and global racialized capitalism in Césaire’s La tragédie du roi Christophe1
Memories of arrival: A voice from the margins1
Of pink (and red) paint, Black lives (that matter), and intersectionality in Italy1
Consider the whale1
Final frontiers: Science fiction and techno-science in Non-Aligned India Final frontiers: Science fiction and techno-science in Non-Aligned India , by Upamanyu Pablo Muk1
Why indigenous literatures matter1
Black South African autobiography after Deleuze: Belonging and becoming in self-testimony1
On not writing back: Cosmopolitan paradoxes in new diasporic Malaysian writing today1
The secular cleansing that wasn’t: “Vande Mataram” and the expurgated story of Indian nationalism1
“Making up stories is an inherently political act”: Mohsin Hamid in conversation1
Infection rebellion in Bina Shah’s Before She Sleeps1
The anti-Antigone: Pākehā settler masculinity, racialized kinship, and contested paternity in Carl Nixon’s Settlers’ Creek1
China, Malaysia, and millennial diasporic identity in Tash Aw’s The Face and Five Star Billionaire1
Bangladeshi literature in English: A thrice born tradition1
State sponsored literature: Britain and cultural diversity after 19451
The art of COVID-191
Writing Brexit: Colonial remains Writing Brexit: Colonial remains , edited by Caroline Koegler, Pavan Kumar Malreddy, and Marlena Tronicke, Abingdon, Routledge, 2021, 131
Imagined community: Chinatown narrative in Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone and Steer Toward Rock1
The world novel: Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte1
Spatial boundaries, abounding spaces: Colonial borders in French and francophone literature and film1
The new world literature Chronicles from the land of the happiest people on earth , by Wole Soyinka, London, Bloomsbury Circus, 2021, 464 pp., £20.00 (hardback), ISBN: 91
Malaysian literature in English: A critical companion1
World literature decentered: Beyond the “West” through Turkey, Mexico, and Bengal World literature decentered: Beyond the “West” through Turkey, Mexico, and Bengal , by 0
Reading Malaysian literature in English: ethnicity, gender, diaspora, and nationalism0
The broken promise of infrastructure0
The racial politics of Afropolitanism and Zukiswa Wanner’s London, Cape Town, Joburg0
Black British love matters: Asserting the transformative power of love in Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour: Mythical Tales Around the World Retold0
Universalism and the Malaysian anglophone novel: Exploring inequality, migrancy, and class in Tash Aw’s We, the Survivors0
Misogyny in The Eastern Slope Chronicle: An elegy for diasporic male chauvinism0
Re-Imagining the Guyanas Re-imagining the Guyanas , edited by Lawrence Aje, Thomas Lacroiz, and Judith Misrahi-Barak,Montpellier, Presses universitaires de la Méditerran0
The Afterlife of al-Andalus: Muslim Iberia in Contemporary Arab and Hispanic Narratives The Afterlife of al-Andalus: Muslim Iberia in Contemporary Arab and Hispanic Narratives 0
World literature in motion: Institution, recognition, location0
Transnational re-memorialization in Preeta Samarasan’s Evening Is the Whole Day0
Wong Phui Nam: Passing of a postcolonial literary pioneer0
“Our moon has these blood clots, and it is no use hiding them”: In conversation with Rahul Pandita0
Deliberative agency: A study in modern African political philosophy Deliberative agency: A study in modern African political philosophy , by Uchenna Okeja, Indiana, Indi0
In the name of Destà: Artivism, corporeality, and “postcolonial pathways”0
Australian literature and its institutionalization in the offshore playground0
Cruel optimism and irreparable reading: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai and Nyasha trilogy0
Our freedoms: Essays and stories from India’s best writers0
Panchayat and colonialism in Humayun Kabir’s Men and Rivers0
Ishtyle: Accenting gay Indian nightlife0
“This story is not about immigrants but about refugees”: “Loose Change” by Andrea Levy0
Allegories of the Anthropocene0
Michael Ondaatje’sRunning in the Familyand the “familia-graphic” gaze0
Colour Everything0
“I wanted to show the faces of these migrant workers, their struggles to breathe, and their undignified deaths”: In conversation with Puja Changoiwala0
Babu Bangladesh!0
Representing vulnerabilities in contemporary literature0
Introduction: The question of the interview0
Being there, being here: Palestinian writings in the world0
Imagining the self in South Asian and African literatures0
Green academia: Towards eco-friendly education systems0
sand; the dancers0
Letters from Khartoum, D.R. Ewen: Teaching English Literature, Sudan, 1951–19650
Fragmentations, phantom limbs, re-memberings: Negotiating bodies, representation, and subjectivity in Caribbean British writing0
Empires of the mind: The colonial past and the politics of the present0
The ritual in the roadblock film: The wedding and the birthday in post-Oslo Palestinian Cinema0
Making visible the invisible: Colonial sources and counter body-archives in the boarding schools for Black “mixed race” Italian children in fascist East Africa0
Afterword: Diaspora as translation0
A Malaysian ecocriticism reader: Considerations of nature, culture, place, and identities0
Planting the weathervane: Neo-liberalism, international charity, and the premodern in Anuradha Roy’sSleeping on Jupiter(2015)0
Aboriginalizing Mother Courage : Brecht in Australia0
Traditional land, postcolonial development, and indigenous ecocriticism in Esther Syiem’s poems0
Hyphenational poetics in Omar Musa’sParangandMillefiori0
A conversation with Leila Aboulela0
When the “ gormen ” (government) – walled up the rivers: Reading Sarah Joseph’s Budhini as contemporary Indian hydrofiction0
Correction0
A publisher’s perspective on diversity: A conversation with Hermione Thompson0
Two poems by Kaiser Haq0
Marginlands: Indian landscapes on the brink0
Literatures of liberalisation: Global circulation and the long nineteenth century0
Bifurcated futures: Generic discontinuity and speculative form in the post-2008 African novel0
O cabelo dela revela: Towards decolonizing Afro Brazilian hair0
A poetics of parallax: The significant geographies of Derek Walcott’s Omeros (1990)0
A City of Cynics0
Literatures of liberation: Non-European universalisms and democratic progress,0
Caribbean literature in transition Caribbean literature in transition, 1800–1920 , Volume 1, edited by Evelyn O’Callaghan and Tim Watson, Cambridge, C0
Two poems by Nancy Anne Miller0
Culture and the literary: Matter, metaphor, memory0
Science fiction in India: Parallel worlds and postcolonial paradigms0
“Abhi Toh Main Jawan Hoon” (For I am forever young): Reflections on the agentic cinematic presence of Zohra Sehgal in British Indian films0
Licencing queerness: An intersectional reading of sexual subalternity, queer utopianism, and law in R. Raj Rao’s Lady Lolita’s Lover0
Clash of temporalities: Ephemerality and embodied time in Welcome to Our Hillbrow0
Reconfiguration and representation in the literary landscape: Chinese-language literary production in Singapore0
The postcolonial millennium: New directions in Malaysian literature in English0
“Golden hour”: Nostalgia and the demise of the Muslim urban space inTwilight in DelhiandSunlight on a Broken Column0
Towards an intersectional literary criticism: Cross-Identity representations, social location, and Shani Mootoo’s intervention0
Place and the postcolonial poetry of Nigeria0
Thinking the delirious pandemic governance by numbers with Samit Basu’sChosen Spiritsand Prayaag Akbar’sLeila0
Chiang Yee and his circle: Chinese artistic and intellectual life in Britain, 1930–1950 Chiang Yee and his circle: Chinese artistic and intellectual life in Britain, 1930–1950 0
A Sonnet after Empire0
Postcolonial literatures in the local literary marketplace: Located reading0
The lost Kashmir: Home, memory, and affect through the material in Agha Shahid Ali’s poetry0
“Here I’ll stay”: Kaiser Haq’s poems and the impact of being at home0
Women, rememory, and herstory: Reading Hangwoman as a feminist fiction of memory0
Ecocritical explorations of the climate crisis: Planetary precarity and future habitability0
From decolonization to destalinization: Aimé Césaire and the “Polish question”0
Standing on the Border: 20150
Frantz Fanon: alienation and freedom0
Jewish American writing and world literature: Maybe to millions, maybe to nobody0
Rethinking Muslim narratives: Stereotypes reinforced or contested in recent genre fiction?0
Robinson Crusoe in the Pacific: REFUGIO by Roger Palmer and the Marxian theory of economic character masks0
Septopia and the wastialized Other: Allegorizing neo-liberalism in the age of COVID-190
A Prague text: Reconfiguring marginality in and of Europe0
Decolonial hope and planetary solidarity: Fostering sustainability through African life narratives0
Weak positions: Olive Schreiner’s elusive politics0
Colonial coal and peripheral modernity: Shailajananda Mukhopadhyay’sPatalpurias world-ecological literature0
Oil fictions: World literature and our contemporary petrosphere0
South Asian writers, Latin American literature, and the rise of global English0
Narrativizing what cannot be told: The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun as a liminal trauma narrative0
Generative transcription: The interview in post-World War 2 anglophone African literary culture0
Isolated incident Isolated incident , by Mariam Pirbhai, Toronto, Mawenzi House, 2022, 224 pp., $22.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-77415-088-70
Toxic grace? Tahmima Anam’sThe Bones of Graceand the pollution trade0
Critical lives: Rabindranath Tagore0
Dalit kotha: The subaltern voice in a Bengali woman’s narratives0
Anti-gypsyism, intergenerational conflict, and intersectional dilemmas in the films of Laura Halilovic0
Introduction: New vistas of postcolonial discourse0
The Power of Names; Missing Nyonya Poster0
Angor – Poetry in Hindi/English0
British culture after empire: Race, decolonisation and migration since 19450
“It’s sort of everything”: The thingness of diasporic memory in “Demons of the Punjab” (2018) and Ms Marvel (2022)0
Salman Rushdie and the death of the author0
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance; Standing With Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement0
Writing against colonialism in South African memoir0
Indian writings in English at present0
Dictators, dictatorship and the African novel: Fictions of the state under neoliberalism0
Vijay Mishra on the archive and two world writers: V.S. Naipaul and Subramani0
A century of encounters: Writing the other in Arab North Africa0
Temporary marriage in Iran: Gender and body politics in modern Iranian film and literature0
The archive of hospitality in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret : A Sufi feminist revision0
Refugee fiction as world-literature: Rethinking registration in the contemporary refugee novel0
Beyond national(ist) binaries: The case of Zia Haider Rahman’s In the Light of What We Know0
A conversation with Timothy Brennan0
Of ties and lies: Ethical disruptions in Oyinkan Braithwaite’sMy Sister the Serial Killer(2018)0
Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India , by Akshya Saxena, Princeton, NJ, Prin0
The Cambridge History of World Literature0
Shipwreck narratives: Out of our depth Shipwreck narratives: Out of our depth , by Michael Titlestad, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 229 pp., €49.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0
The short story after apartheid: Thinking with form in South African literature0
Beyond the “‘recruitable’ narrative”? The fictive portrayal of Pakistani Christians in Nadeem Aslam’s The Golden Legend0
The retrospective Raj: Medicine, literature and history after empire0
Diaspora & returns in fiction0
Consciousness and the other: Fragmentation, unselfing, and a contemporary role for the modernist collage interview0
Writing the self: Memory, history, and the diasporic Bildungsroman in V.V. Ganeshananthan’s Love Marriage0
Adventure comics and youth cultures in India0
Speculative fiction as “decolonial option”: Towards a “vulnerable reading” of Ali Mirdrekvandi’s No Heaven for Gunga Din (1965)0
South African London: Writing the metropolis after 1948 South African London: Writing the metropolis after 1948 , by Andrea Thorpe, Manchester, Manchester University Pre0
The aqueous form and the Afro–Sino encounter in Yvonne Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea0
Can the Subaltern laugh? Humour, translatability, and the inequalities of World Literature0
Graphic migrations: Precarity and gender in India and the diaspora0
Identity, sexuality, and the new African diaspora in the USA: A conversation with Bisi Adjapon0
Flattening the curse: Cooling down with Zadie Smith’sIntimations0
Editors’ note0
“That hateful limit”: Narrative distancing and Palestinian subjectivity in the post-sumudfiction of Adania Shibli0
“It was too, too miserable being a child”: Whiteness and the mother–daughter dyad in Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl0
Varieties of imperial imaginary of the Arctic and the Congo in Lady Franklin of Russell Square and Heart of Darkness0
Narrating horrific refugee experiences in Hassan Blasim’s short fiction0
Displacing difference, interrupting Indianness: Song sequences in digitally-released Indian-American films0
The fear of new barbarians: The drama of 9/11 terrorism and its threat on the west in Driss Chraïbi’s L’Homme qui venait du passé0
Living in dystopia: Fractured identities and COVID-190
“For here, we have not an enduring city, but we are looking for the city to come”: Dysgraphia of disaster and wayward Black futures in Jay Bernard’s Surge (2019)0
Translation in diasporic literatures0
Black women at war:The Shadow King(2019),Cronache dalla polvere(2019), and intersectional violence in contemporary Italy0
The world in a grain of sand: Postcolonial literature and radical universalism The world in a grain of sand: Postcolonial literature and radical universalism , by Nivedi0
Exclusion, empathy, and Islam: The Runaways in the literary marketplace0
Antipodean China: Reflections on literary exchange Antipodean China: Reflections on literary exchange , edited by Nicholas Jose and Benjamin Madden, Artarmon, NSW, Giram0
“We were fishermen”: The postnational reimagination of community in Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen0
Dalit Lekhika: Women’s writings from Bengal0
Names of the women0
Into our labours: Work and its representation in world-literary perspective0
Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers: Race, Ethics, Narrative Form0
Habitus and productive shame in Life & Times of Michael K0
(Un)Palatable encounters: Melancholic appetites in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist0
Bodies of commerce: Economies of sex in contemporary African women’s writing0
“We’re all some sort of shaath ”: Convergence and transversality of minorities in Saleem Haddad’s Guapa0
Clandestine crossings: Narrating Zimbabwe’s precarious diaspora in South Africa in Sue Nyathi’sThe Gold-Diggers(2018)0
Mediating Aotearoa: Essays on Māori culture0
Planetary specters: Race, migration, and climate change in the 21st century Planetary specters: Race, migration, and climate change in the 21st century , by Neel Ahuja, 0
Representations of precarity in South Asian literature in English0
“Fully imagined, readable, and amusing”: A retrospective overview of the work of Laura Solomon (1974–2019)0
An equal death: Satyendranath Dutta’s poem on sati and widow remarriage0
Postcolonial automobility: car culture in West Africa0
Return to innocence? Diaspora screen media and “New Ethnicities” in the moment of diversity0
Politicising world literature: Egypt, between pedagogy and the public0
Mapping identity and place in Yongping Li’s The End of the River0
American trickster: Trauma, tradition and Brer Rabbit0
“Life, please listen. I have some very important things to say”: A conversation with Ambikasutan Mangad0
Glocal narratives of resilience0
Interpoetics or the poetics of culture and the culture of poetics in Hannah Lowe, Russell Leong, Marilyn Chin, and Fred Wah0
Why Australia? Inquiries and possibilities in the United States0
African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Nigeria and Kenya0
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