Journal of Postcolonial Writing

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Insurgent imaginations: World literature and the periphery6
Jewish American writing and world literature: Maybe to millions, maybe to nobody4
Debt/law/realism: Nigerian writers imagine the state at independence Debt/law/realism: Nigerian writers imagine the state at independence , by Neil ten Kortenaar, Montre3
Colour Everything3
Black South African autobiography after Deleuze: Belonging and becoming in self-testimony3
South Asian digital humanities: Postcolonial mediations across technology’s cultural Canon3
Literatures of liberation: Non-European universalisms and democratic progress,3
Mobilities and Mediterranean peripheries: Narrating Maltese identities in Vincent Vella’sSlippery Steps2
Satire and community in the time of COVID-19: An analysis of Ernest Ng’s Covidball Z2
South African London: Writing the metropolis after 1948 South African London: Writing the metropolis after 1948 , by Andrea Thorpe, Manchester, Manchester University Pre2
Through an observer’s eyes: A conversation with author Siddhartha Gigoo2
A Sonnet after Empire2
Teaching Australia and Japan through Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North2
Contemporary Pakistani speculative fiction and the global imaginary: Democratizing human futures2
“Space Probe”: Science fiction across the Black Atlantic. The speculative geographies of Amiri Baraka and Emmanuel Dongala2
Tagore, nationalism and cosmopolitanism: Perceptions, contestations and contemporary relevance Tagore, nationalism and cosmopolitanism: Perceptions, contestations and contemporary relev2
Adventure comics and youth cultures in India2
The death of a tropical neurasthenic in George Orwell’s Burmese Days2
Post-postmodernist fiction and the rise of digital epitexts2
“Politics of racism” and BrexLit: Questioning the racially labelled entities in Ali Smith’s Autumn1
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
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
Of pink (and red) paint, Black lives (that matter), and intersectionality in Italy1
The world novel: Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte Quichotte , by Salman Rushdie, London, Jonathan Cape, 2019, 393 pp., £20.00 (hardback), ISBN 97817873319141
Pandemic: Invisibility and silence1
The broken promise of infrastructure1
Towards an intersectional literary criticism: Cross-Identity representations, social location, and Shani Mootoo’s intervention1
Interrupted narratives and intersectional representations in Italian postcolonial literature1
When the “ gormen ” (government) – walled up the rivers: Reading Sarah Joseph’s Budhini as contemporary Indian hydrofiction1
Interpoetics or the poetics of culture and the culture of poetics in Hannah Lowe, Russell Leong, Marilyn Chin, and Fred Wah1
Transnational existence on Indian borders: An interview with Pradeep Damodaran1
Universalism and the Malaysian anglophone novel: Exploring inequality, migrancy, and class in Tash Aw’s We, the Survivors1
Representations of precarity in South Asian literature in English1
Speculative fiction as “decolonial option”: Towards a “vulnerable reading” of Ali Mirdrekvandi’s No Heaven for Gunga Din (1965)1
Memoirs of African farms: Land, settlement, and belonging in white life writing from Southern Africa1
Rethinking the “postcolonial” in the postcolonial interview1
Writing an(Other) Europe: Challenging peripheries in Chika Unigwe’s fiction on Belgium1
Live and let live: The Black 007 in No Time To Die1
“To dream of a wildness distant from ourselves”: Capitalism, colonialism, and the Robinsonade1
Graphic migrations: Precarity and gender in India and the diaspora1
Planting the weathervane: Neo-liberalism, international charity, and the premodern in Anuradha Roy’sSleeping on Jupiter(2015)1
“This story is not about immigrants but about refugees”: “Loose Change” by Andrea Levy1
In memoriam – Patrick Wolfe (1949–2016)11
East of Delhi: Multilingual literary culture and world literature1
“That hateful limit”: Narrative distancing and Palestinian subjectivity in the post-sumudfiction of Adania Shibli1
“Ghostly revenants”: The soundscape of pain and memory in Afghan American fiction1
Intersectional environmentalism: Russell C. Leong’s “Azure in Angel City: A Blues Sketch, Part One”1
Documenting the unarchivable: Minor Detail and the archive of senses1
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
Women, rememory, and herstory: Reading Hangwoman as a feminist fiction of memory1
Place and the postcolonial poetry of Nigeria1
The postcolonial millennium: New directions in Malaysian literature in English1
“Abhi Toh Main Jawan Hoon” (For I am forever young): Reflections on the agentic cinematic presence of Zohra Sehgal in British Indian films1
The interrogation: Interviews at the limit1
The new age of empire: How racism and colonialism still rule the world The new age of empire: How racism and colonialism still rule the world , by Kehinde Andrews, Londo1
Australian literature and its institutionalization in the offshore playground1
Introduction: Chinese diasporic writing1
Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India , by Akshya Saxena, Princeton, NJ, Prin1
Re-Imagining the Guyanas Re-imagining the Guyanas , edited by Lawrence Aje, Thomas Lacroiz, and Judith Misrahi-Barak,Montpellier, Presses universitaires de la Méditerran1
Mobilizing the past:The God of Small Things’ automotive ecologies1
Robinson Crusoe : After the island1
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 passé1
Creative radicalism: Culture and the Arab left after the uprising1
“I believe there are as many motherhoods as there are mothers”: In conversation with Jerry Pinto1
“Kin-fused” revenge: Rewriting the canon and settler belonging in Leah Purcell’sThe Drover’s Wife1
Finding the “way back”: Displacement and the imaginings of home in Niq Mhlongo’s Way Back Home1
Diaspora & returns in fiction1
Performing the Cold War in the postcolonial world: Theatre, film, literature and things1
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
Babu Bangladesh!1
The poetics of the (un)named city in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West1
China, Malaysia, and millennial diasporic identity in Tash Aw’s The Face and Five Star Billionaire1
Cruel optimism and irreparable reading: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai and Nyasha trilogy1
The living mountain: A fable for our times1
Wong Phui Nam: Passing of a postcolonial literary pioneer1
“Musée de l’absence” and “Postcolonial flâneuse”1
FromPecore neretoFuture: Anthologizing intersectional Blackness in contemporary Italy0
Marginlands: Indian landscapes on the brink0
Politicising world literature: Egypt, between pedagogy and the public0
In the name of Destà: Artivism, corporeality, and “postcolonial pathways”0
Ambivalence, division, and critique: The collaborator in British Palestinian political thrillers0
Why indigenous literatures matter0
Entangled peripheries: Spatial agency in Jackie Kay’sTrumpetand Caryl Phillips’sThe Lost Child0
Reconfiguration and representation in the literary landscape: Chinese-language literary production in Singapore0
“Fully imagined, readable, and amusing”: A retrospective overview of the work of Laura Solomon (1974–2019)0
Mobility in contemporary Zimbabwean literature in English: Crossing borders, transcending boundaries Mobility in contemporary Zimbabwean literature in English: Crossing borders, transce0
Sensitive reading: The pleasures of South Asian literature in translation0
Between modernity and modernism: Reading affect in Muktibodh’s translated poetry0
Transnational re-memorialization in Preeta Samarasan’s Evening Is the Whole Day0
Poetics and politics of relationality in contemporary Australian Aboriginal fiction0
Oil fictions: World literature and our contemporary petrosphere0
“You have to survive”: Reading trauma, survival, and adolescent resilience in N.H. Senzai’s contemporary young adult war narrative, Escape from Aleppo0
Introduction: Robinson Crusoe, Karl Marx and the critique of colonial violence0
“Two normative orders”: Time, the body, and memory in Okey Ndibe’s Foreign Gods, Inc.0
Dark, Almost Nightby Joanna Bator as a (hi)story of the peripheral European city of Wałbrzych/Waldenburg0
Imagining the self in South Asian and African literatures0
Letters from Khartoum, D.R. Ewen: Teaching English Literature, Sudan, 1951–19650
(Un)Palatable encounters: Melancholic appetites in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist0
Buried in the desert and lost in the city: Gothic spaces in Egyptian feminist writing0
Intergenerational trauma and complex implication in Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King (2019)0
Introduction: New vistas of postcolonial discourse0
Narrativizing what cannot be told: The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun as a liminal trauma narrative0
African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Nigeria and Kenya0
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
Refugee fiction as world-literature: Rethinking registration in the contemporary refugee novel0
Postcolonial automobility: car culture in West Africa0
Bodies of commerce: Economies of sex in contemporary African women’s writing0
Being there, being here: Palestinian writings in the world0
Writing Brexit: Colonial remains Writing Brexit: Colonial remains , edited by Caroline Koegler, Pavan Kumar Malreddy, and Marlena Tronicke, Abingdon, Routledge, 2021, 130
Two poems by Kaiser Haq0
Archipelagic thinking in Merlinda Bobis’s Fish-Hair Woman corpus0
Toxic grace? Tahmima Anam’sThe Bones of Graceand the pollution trade0
State sponsored literature: Britain and cultural diversity after 19450
Green unpleasant land: Creative responses to rural England’s colonial connections0
Queer Pacific mobilities: Translocal bodies in the poetry of Dan Taulapapa McMullin0
Justice and human rights in the African imagination: We, too, are humans0
A transnational vision of The King and I : On American culture and policy in David Henry Hwang’s Soft Power0
Black women at war:The Shadow King(2019),Cronache dalla polvere(2019), and intersectional violence in contemporary Italy0
Storying ourselves: Black Consciousness thought and adolescent agency in 21st-century Africa0
The importance of self-definition: An interview with Djarah Kan0
Fatima Meer, choosing to be defiant: Pictures, paintings and politics0
The retrospective Raj: Medicine, literature and history after empire0
“Swapping our blood for oil money”: Neo-liberal subjectivity and uneven development in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were0
Traditional land, postcolonial development, and indigenous ecocriticism in Esther Syiem’s poems0
Representing vulnerabilities in contemporary literature0
The seven moons of Maali Almeida The seven moons of Maali Almeida , by Shehan Karunatilaka, Gurugram, Haryana, Penguin Random House India, 2022, 400 pp., ₹399 (paperback0
We should all be radical feminists: A review of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s contribution to literature and feminism0
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
Ecology of the zombie: World culture and the monstrous0
The archive of hospitality in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret : A Sufi feminist revision0
Frantz Fanon: alienation and freedom0
Mapping modernisms: art, indigeneity, colonialism0
Post-Arab spring narratives: A minor literature in the making0
Temporary marriage in Iran: Gender and body politics in modern Iranian film and literature0
Marketing secular anxieties: Mohsin Hamid’s planetary turn0
The rise (in the fall) of Cochin: Provincializing metropolitan spatiality in Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh0
Interrogating eco-literature and sustainable development: Theory, text, and practice0
Correction0
Under postcolonial African skies (excerpts from a ten-poem sequence)0
Czech translations and receptions of contemporary Australian fiction0
The global novel and capitalism in crisis: contemporary literary narratives0
“We tick: Other” – race, religion, and literary solidarities in three essay anthologies and the neo-liberal marketplace0
The Power of Names; Missing Nyonya Poster0
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
South Asian writers, Latin American literature, and the rise of global English0
Return to innocence? Diaspora screen media and “New Ethnicities” in the moment of diversity0
Hong Kong echoes across English ghost lands: A decolonizing of English-language poetry0
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, 140
Salman Rushdie in context0
Malaysian literature in English: A critical companion0
Afroeuropean peripheral mobilities in francophone African literatures0
An equal death: Satyendranath Dutta’s poem on sati and widow remarriage0
Memory studies and postcolonial writing: Interstitial intersections and entanglements0
On not writing back: Cosmopolitan paradoxes in new diasporic Malaysian writing today0
Why Australia? Inquiries and possibilities in the United States0
Fragmentations, phantom limbs, re-memberings: Negotiating bodies, representation, and subjectivity in Caribbean British writing0
The voice of diversity: Picture brides and masked individuality in Julie Otsuka’sThe Buddha in the Attic0
The Cambridge History of World Literature0
Varieties of imperial imaginary of the Arctic and the Congo in Lady Franklin of Russell Square and Heart of Darkness0
“We’re all some sort of shaath ”: Convergence and transversality of minorities in Saleem Haddad’s Guapa0
“I wanted to show the faces of these migrant workers, their struggles to breathe, and their undignified deaths”: In conversation with Puja Changoiwala0
The legacy of Angélique in late 20th-century Black Canadian drama0
Reading Malaysian literature in English: ethnicity, gender, diaspora, and nationalism0
Caribbean literature in transition Caribbean literature in transition, 1800–1920 , Volume 1, edited by Evelyn O’Callaghan and Tim Watson, Cambridge, C0
Beyond national(ist) binaries: The case of Zia Haider Rahman’s In the Light of What We Know0
Clandestine crossings: Narrating Zimbabwe’s precarious diaspora in South Africa in Sue Nyathi’sThe Gold-Diggers(2018)0
O cabelo dela revela: Towards decolonizing Afro Brazilian hair0
The intersections of illness and literature in the Ottoman Empire: Figuring Émile Zola and syphilis in Halide Edib’sMev’ut Hüküm0
Delving beneath the surface: An interview with Monica Ali0
Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature , by Ato Quayson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 334 pp., $46.75 (hardback), ISBN 90
Two poems by Nancy Anne Miller0
The Kashmiri Pandits’ 1990s exodus: An interview with Siddhartha Gigoo0
“Amplifying Black Italian voices”: An interview with Leaticia Ouedraogo0
Trauma and transformation in African literature0
Southeast Asia as a decolonial method of storytelling and epistemic intervention: A reading of Joshua Kam’s How the Man in Green Saved Pahang, and Possibly the World (200
American trickster: Trauma, tradition and Brer Rabbit0
Crusoe’s crusade: Marginalia to the war against the devil in Daniel Defoe’sRobinsonCrusoe0
Epitaph by her grave0
The short story after apartheid: Thinking with form in South African literature0
Antipodean China: Reflections on literary exchange Antipodean China: Reflections on literary exchange , edited by Nicholas Jose and Benjamin Madden, Artarmon, NSW, Giram0
Names of the women0
Mapping identity and place in Yongping Li’s The End of the River0
Tributes to Derek Walcott, 1930–2017: In various light Tributes to Derek Walcott, 1930–2017: In various light , edited by Helen Goethals and Eric Doumerc, Cambridge, Cam0
Glocal narratives of resilience0
Manifesto for the immigrant poet0
Spectres from the past: Slavery and the politics of history in West African and African-American literature0
African literary imaginaries and critiques of global capitalism0
International perspectives on Australian literature0
Can the Subaltern laugh? Humour, translatability, and the inequalities of World Literature0
Bifurcated futures: Generic discontinuity and speculative form in the post-2008 African novel0
Ishtyle: Accenting gay Indian nightlife0
Consciousness and the other: Fragmentation, unselfing, and a contemporary role for the modernist collage interview0
Literatures of liberalisation: Global circulation and the long nineteenth century0
Isolated incident Isolated incident , by Mariam Pirbhai, Toronto, Mawenzi House, 2022, 224 pp., $22.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-77415-088-70
The longevity of a poem is what counts: An interview with Menka Shivdasani0
Editors’ note0
The contested city: Speculative fiction and metropolitan imagination in colonial Bengal0
Critical lives: Rabindranath Tagore0
“Blood mist blurs my vision”: Six poems by Sukanta Bhattacharya0
African literature as world literature0
Majuli0
The environmental apocalypse: Interdisciplinary reflections on the climate crisis0
The racial politics of Afropolitanism and Zukiswa Wanner’s London, Cape Town, Joburg0
Salman Rushdie and the death of the author0
Memories of arrival: A voice from the margins0
The secular cleansing that wasn’t: “Vande Mataram” and the expurgated story of Indian nationalism0
Challenges and possibilities in the translation of Dalit literature: An interview with Susheela Punitha0
The Cambridge history of world literature (2 vols) The Cambridge history of world literature (2 vols) , edited by Debjani Ganguly, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,0
Leila Aboulela, Islam, and the trajectory of the African novel0
Postcolonial social dramas in European provincial towns: Frank Westerman’s literary journalism0
“Make way poet, jaywalking”: Play and irony in Arun Kolatkar’s work0
“I feel I am a man and a free man too”: Palawa voices and the ethics of representation in contemporary Tasmanian fiction0
Introduction: Secularism and the literary marketplace0
Mediating Aotearoa: Essays on Māori culture0
Dalit Lekhika: Women’s writings from Bengal0
Displacing difference, interrupting Indianness: Song sequences in digitally-released Indian-American films0
The anti-Antigone: Pākehā settler masculinity, racialized kinship, and contested paternity in Carl Nixon’s Settlers’ Creek0
Empires of the mind: The colonial past and the politics of the present0
Hyphenational poetics in Omar Musa’sParangandMillefiori0
Building resilience in Lawrence Hill’s The Illegal0
Inner and outer worlds: Gail Jones’ fiction Inner and outer worlds: Gail Jones’ fiction , edited by Anthony Uhlmann, Sydney, Sydney University Press, 2022, 186 pp., AU$40
Indian writings in English at present Nameste Trump & other stories , by Tabish Khair, Massachusetts, Interink Publishing, 2023, 256 pp., $17.00 (paperback), ISBN 970
Smoke and ashes: A writer’s journey through opium’s hidden histories0
A Malaysian ecocriticism reader: Considerations of nature, culture, place, and identities0
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
A City of Cynics0
Writing against colonialism in South African memoir0
The challenge of interviewing Middle East leaders: A first-hand story of my encounters with dictators and dissidents0
Of ties and lies: Ethical disruptions in Oyinkan Braithwaite’sMy Sister the Serial Killer(2018)0
Bangladeshi literature in English: A critical anthology0
Imagining Kashmir: Emplotment and colonialism Imagining Kashmir: Emplotment and colonialism , by Patrick Colm Hogan, Lincoln and London, University of Nebraska Press, 200
The flavours of mixing: Postcolonial literary representations of cooking as a feminine mode of creolization0
Homing in: Dom Moraes and the felt community of the dissociated in India0
Colonial coal and peripheral modernity: Shailajananda Mukhopadhyay’sPatalpurias world-ecological literature0
Materializing grief: The reclamation of loss in Kamila Shamsie’sHome Fire0
“It was too, too miserable being a child”: Whiteness and the mother–daughter dyad in Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl0
On the periphery: Contemporary exile fiction and Hungary0
Spatial boundaries, abounding spaces: Colonial borders in French and francophone literature and film0
Hindutva as Political Monotheism Hindutva as Political Monotheism , by Anustup Basu, Durham, Duke University Press, 2020, 296 pp., $27.95 (paperback), ISBN 97814780109440
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
Afterword: Diaspora as translation0
Black British love matters: Asserting the transformative power of love in Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour: Mythical Tales Around the World Retold0
The Boochani effect: Public feelings and the limits of refugee authorship0
From Oodgeroo Noonuccal to Alexis Wright: Postcolonial reading of Australian Indigenous literature in China, 1988–20180
“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
A publisher’s perspective on diversity: A conversation with Hermione Thompson0
Decolonial hope and planetary solidarity: Fostering sustainability through African life narratives0
Consider the whale0
A conversation with Leila Aboulela0
Two London fires and a critique of grievability: Mournful protest, the Black elegy, and Jay Bernard’s Surge (2019)0
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