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“Intersectional perspectives and youthful trauma”: (Re)considering Gauri in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Reshmi Lahiri-Roy
This article offers a new reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Lowland (2013), focused on the protagonist Gauri, by challenging earlier critical accounts of her character. Using an intersectional a...
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Homing in: Dom Moraes and the felt community of the dissociated in India Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Durba Mukherjee, Sayan Chattopadhyay
Prominent anglophone Indian writer Dom Moraes (1938−2004) has usually been categorized as a committed anglophile and his work dismissed for upholding what is seen as the warped and misconstrued per...
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Aboriginalizing Mother Courage: Brecht in Australia Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Prateek
This article investigates the crucial role of Brechtian aesthetics in representing the voice of Aboriginal Australians. It examines the theatre of Wesley Enoch, an Aboriginal Australian director an...
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Fatima Meer, choosing to be defiant: Pictures, paintings and politics Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Sayan Dey
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The longevity of a poem is what counts: An interview with Menka Shivdasani Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Md Rakibul Islam
Menka Shivdasani is a distinguished new-generation poet from Mumbai who has profoundly influenced and changed Indian poetry in English by giving it a new direction with her writing craft. In this w...
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Women, rememory, and herstory: Reading Hangwoman as a feminist fiction of memory Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Sruthi Vinayan, Merin Simi Raj
This article reads Hangwoman (2014) by K.R. Meera as a feminist fiction of memory which narrates the herstory of India through the collective memory of the Grdhha Mullicks, a hangman family in Kolk...
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Refugee fiction as world-literature: Rethinking registration in the contemporary refugee novel Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Charlotte Spear
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees #IBelong campaign reinforces the importance of national belonging in crisis resolution. However, both the “refugee crisis” and world-literature com...
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“You have to survive”: Reading trauma, survival, and adolescent resilience in N.H. Senzai’s contemporary young adult war narrative, Escape from Aleppo Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Arya Priyadarshini, Sonya Andermahr, Suman Sigroha
In recent years, millions of Syrians – one-third of them under the age of 18 – have sought refuge in neighbouring and far-off regions. This article explores the representations of the impact of tra...
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Ambivalence, division, and critique: The collaborator in British Palestinian political thrillers Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Isabelle Hesse
This article examines the use of the collaborator as a literary figure and a critical tool in Mischa Hiller’s Shake Off and Ahmed Masoud’s Vanished: The Mysterious Disappearance of Mustafa Ouda. I ...
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(Un)Palatable encounters: Melancholic appetites in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Dhanashree Thorat
Drawing on scholarship on racial melancholia and food studies, this article traces the melancholic appetites manifested in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and examines how alimentary de...
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Documenting the unarchivable: Minor Detail and the archive of senses Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Ella Elbaz
This article is a close reading of Adania Shibli’s Tafṣīl thānawī (Minor Detail), focusing on the novel’s poetic techniques of narrating Palestinian history. This article shows how, in order to bre...
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New northern voices: Black British writing and the devolving politics of prize culture Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Chloe Ashbridge
Representations of Black British life have long been concentrated in London. The capital occupies the centre of Britain’s post-imperial imaginary and its literary economy, with Manchester at the fo...
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National literature in multinational states Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Geoffrey MacDonald
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Life is not useful Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Kedi Zhao
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Graphic migrations: Precarity and gender in India and the diaspora Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Sreyoshi Sarkar
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The environmental apocalypse: Interdisciplinary reflections on the climate crisis Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Jesse van Amelsvoort
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Live and let live: The Black 007 in No Time To Die Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Rajinder Dudrah
No Time To Die (2021) saw the arrival of a Black British 007 as protagonist in the James Bond film franchise. The Black 007 Nomi was played by Black British actress Lashana Lynch with diasporic eth...
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“Musée de l’absence” and “Postcolonial flâneuse” Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Ramisha Rafique
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Sensitive reading: The pleasures of South Asian literature in translation Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Anita
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Spatial boundaries, abounding spaces: Colonial borders in French and francophone literature and film Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Jane Hiddleston
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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“To dream of a wildness distant from ourselves”: Capitalism, colonialism, and the Robinsonade Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Nicole Pepperell
Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe holds an iconic position, not solely as a work of literature, but also for its influence in economic and social theory. This article reflects on this influence ...
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Robinson Crusoe: After the island Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-08-21 John Hutnyk
ABSTRACT Charting an anti-colonial or even postcolonial current, this article recovers ironic and satirical meanings in Robinson Crusoe. After he leaves the island, Crusoe trades isolation for commercial opportunities in Asia. Alongside other books plundered by Defoe, Dampier’s Voyages is comparable because the pirate-navigator-cartographer is one among many models. As Defoe was negotiating the politics
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Building resilience in Lawrence Hill’s The Illegal Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Sara Casco-Solís
ABSTRACT Canadian writer Lawrence Hill's 2015 novel The Illegal provides deep insights into the legal and social restrictions imposed on refugees in their host countries, which often exacerbate their vulnerability. Drawing on Judith Butler's theorizing about the interconnection between vulnerability and agency and recent resilience thinking, this article explores Hill’s literary rendition of how the
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Building resilience in Lawrence Hill’s The Illegal Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Sara Casco-Solís
Canadian writer Lawrence Hill's 2015 novel The Illegal provides deep insights into the legal and social restrictions imposed on refugees in their host countries, which often exacerbate their vulner...
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“We’re all some sort of shaath”: Convergence and transversality of minorities in Saleem Haddad’s Guapa Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Lava Asaad
ABSTRACT Saleem Haddad’s debut novel, Guapa, has been celebrated for its depiction of queerness in the Middle East. The novel goes beyond exploring alternative sexualities in a reaction to the overtly predominant heterosexuality of the region. This article traces how Haddad draws on the upheavals that erupted during the Arab Spring. Drawing on Rosi Braidotti’s concept of transversality that is intended
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“We’re all some sort of shaath”: Convergence and transversality of minorities in Saleem Haddad’s Guapa Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Lava Asaad
Saleem Haddad’s debut novel, Guapa, has been celebrated for its depiction of queerness in the Middle East. The novel goes beyond exploring alternative sexualities in a reaction to the overtly predo...
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The flavours of mixing: Postcolonial literary representations of cooking as a feminine mode of creolization Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Pauline Amy de la Bretèque
This article examines the place of food and cooking in Caribbean women’s postcolonial writings, and concentrates on the works of two women authors of Caribbean origins: Jean Rhys and Olive Senior. ...
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Representations of precarity in South Asian literature in English Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Sanjeev Vishwakarma
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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At Dalton’s Bar, surrounded by alaala Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Lawdenmarc Decamora
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan’s Postcolonial Banter and the paradoxes of spoken-word poetry Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Hans-Georg Erney
This article reads the work of Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, an activist and spoken-word poet who, as a British Muslim woman and postcolonial critic, is uniquely placed to articulate postcolonial concern...
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“Yahoo-yahoos and Twitter kweens”: Internet technologies in contemporary Nigerian fiction Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Penny Bicol Cartwright
This article examines the representation of Internet technologies in two recent Nigerian comic novels, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani’s (2009) I Do Not Come to You by Chance and A. Igoni Barrett’s (2015) B...
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Decolonising English studies from the semi-periphery Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Melissa Kennedy
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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An equal death: Satyendranath Dutta’s poem on sati and widow remarriage Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Amitendu Bhattacharya
ABSTRACT The Bengali poet Satyendranath Dutta (1882–1922) is admired for his mastery of prosody and metre. “Sahamaran” – first published in 1906 and translated here into English – is one of his memorable poems centring on the themes of child marriage, sati (widow-burning), and widow remarriage, social issues that engaged the attention of the colonizers and Bengali intelligentsia alike in the heyday
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Crusoe’s crusade: Marginalia to the war against the devil in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Wulf D. Hund
Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is a darkly ingenious bestseller. The eponymous hero of the book, in his very name, indexes not only the pursuit of profit (”Kreutzer”), but also hegemonic cultural p...
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Introduction: Secularism and the literary marketplace Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Vol. 59, No. 3, 2023)
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Narrativizing what cannot be told: The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun as a liminal trauma narrative Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Izabela Poręba
This article examines The Sand Child (L’enfant de sable) by Tahar Ben Jelloun as a liminal trauma narrative. The novel is discussed as an attempt to narrativize trauma. Although trauma resists narr...
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A publisher’s perspective on diversity: A conversation with Hermione Thompson Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Peter Morey
ABSTRACT In this conversation, Hamish Hamilton’s editorial director Hermione Thompson discusses the stages by which a book reaches the buying public. The role of agents and the different expectations of literary and genre-focused publishers are considered. The Black Lives Matter movement has been instrumental in the upsurge of interest in black writing and, while welcoming this development, Thompson
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A conversation with Leila Aboulela Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Rehana Ahmed
ABSTRACT This conversation with Leila Aboulela is shaped primarily by an interest in her work’s position in the literary marketplace, especially in the UK. It explores Aboulela’s considerable success as a Muslim writer whose fictional worlds are infused with Islam, and asks what this might tell us about the place of faith within the marketplace. The discussion ranges from the author’s journey to publication
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Tormented visibility: Extremism, stigma, and staging resistance in Omar El-Khairy and Nadia Latif’s Homegrown Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Peter Morey
ABSTRACT This article examines the circumstances surrounding the cancellation of Omar El-Khairy and Nadia Latif’s play Homegrown in 2015. Commissioned by the National Youth Theatre, it was unexpectedly cancelled days before it was due to open. This move can be attributed to heightened sensitivity towards so-called “extreme” opinions of the kind Homegrown features, as the British government tightened
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An agent’s view on diversity, secularism and religion: A conversation with Rukhsana Yasmin Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Peter Morey
ABSTRACT In this interview, Rukhsana Yasmin describes her experiences as a literary agent from a Muslim cultural background. She recalls how, early in her career, she was somewhat limitingly regarded as a representative of “diversity” within the industry, but also notes the advantages of her insider’s ability to recognize potential areas of sensitivity and broker conversations between authors and publishers
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Marketing secular anxieties: Mohsin Hamid’s planetary turn Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Paul Veyret
ABSTRACT This article unpacks Mohsin Hamid’s position as a global novelist invested in translating the world view of Muslim characters for a secular, western audience. Its approach to Hamid’s secularism combines materialist with textualist frames of reference, seeing the circulation and reception of The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) and Exit West (2017) as entangled with the novelist’s aesthetic
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“We tick: Other” – race, religion, and literary solidarities in three essay anthologies and the neo-liberal marketplace Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Rehana Ahmed
ABSTRACT This article considers Nikesh Shukla’s The Good Immigrant (2016) alongside two anthologies of essays by British Muslim women: Mariam Khan’s It’s Not About the Burqa (2019) and Sabeena Akhtar’s Cut from the Same Cloth? (2021). Situating them within the publishing industry’s racializing practices, which valorize writing by authors of colour as authentically representative of their cultures while
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Marketing stories: Writing with faith and reading in search of spirituality in Elif Shafak’s fiction Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Rachel Gregory Fox
ABSTRACT This article focuses on the reception of Elif Shafak’s fiction as it circulates within the global literary marketplace, examining the responses of secular and religious readerships in English and Turkish. Taking Shafak’s 2010 novel, The Forty Rules of Love, and her 2016 work, Three Daughters of Eve, as case studies, and referring to media and reader reviews of these books, and public commentary
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Rethinking Muslim narratives: Stereotypes reinforced or contested in recent genre fiction? Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Claire Chambers, Sairish Hussain
ABSTRACT This article discusses the challenges British Muslim writers and publishers face in a largely secular literary marketplace and a society marked by Islamophobia. It explores these authors’ publication experiences, analysing examples from industry diversity initiatives and from conducting interviews with authors. Arguing that distorted representations strip Muslims of their complex humanity
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Exclusion, empathy, and Islam: The Runaways in the literary marketplace Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Sauleha Kamal
ABSTRACT With the location of the global literary marketplace in western centres, post-9/11 interest in anglophone Pakistani literature comes with the fetishization of minoritized identities. Fatima Bhutto’s The Runaways combats Islamophobic arguments about the Islamic origins of radicalization, showing that it emerges out of exclusion stemming from material facts of race, class, and gender. However
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The new world literature Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Bruce King
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Vol. 59, No. 5, 2023)
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Yes-colonialism: The European dream Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Awu Isaac Oben
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Tagore, nationalism and cosmopolitanism: Perceptions, contestations and contemporary relevance Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Paoi Hwang
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Inner and outer worlds: Gail Jones’ fiction Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Chengcheng Zhang
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Vol. 59, No. 4, 2023)
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Green academia: Towards eco-friendly education systems Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Abhijit Maity
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Culture and the literary: Matter, metaphor, memory Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Hanna Teichler
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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“I believe there are as many motherhoods as there are mothers”: In conversation with Jerry Pinto Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Shivalika Agarwal, Nagendra Kumar
Jerry Pinto has always been a man of words and wit, as reflected in his career as a journalist, writer, and teacher. Em and the Big Hoom, his best-known novel, is described as a “profoundly moving ...
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Oil fictions: World literature and our contemporary petrosphere Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Jesse van Amelsvoort
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Climate change and the new polar aesthetics: Artists reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Elizabeth Berman
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The idea of Indian literature: Gender, genre, and comparative method Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Jie Guo
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Vol. 59, No. 4, 2023)
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Archipelagic thinking in Merlinda Bobis’s Fish-Hair Woman corpus Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Cheryl Julia Lee
Following Édouard Glissant’s lead, archipelagic thinking challenges neocolonial epistemes and methodologies in imagining alternative relations among difference. It offers productive lines of though...
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The seven moons of Maali Almeida Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Sharmila Narayana
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Vol. 60, No. 1, 2024)
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Caribbean literature in transition Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Matthew Whittle
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Vol. 59, No. 4, 2023)
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The bleeding border: Stories of Bengal Partition Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Sk Tarik Ali
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The bleeding border: Stories of Bengal Partition Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Sk Tarik Ali
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Vol. 60, No. 1, 2024)