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In Other Theories: Colonial Reason, Language, And Literature in Ankhi Mukherjee’s Unseen City Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Mrinalini Greedharry
The colonial reason at the heart of psychoanalysis is increasingly acknowledged, but literature scholars still work with it as an instrument for decolonizing. This essay examines thepossibilities of postcolonial literature itself as a source of epistemological intervention into psychoanalysis.
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Matsotsi: The Migrant Detective and the Postcolonial State Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Stephanie Bosch Santana
Recent work on crime fiction has highlighted the genre’s increasingly transnational focus and the growing number of migrant detectives. Matsotsi, a little-known Nyanja text published in Zambia in the early 1960s, provides a much earlier example of this figure in Sergeant Balala, an Angolan detective fighting to contain the tsotsi menace in Johannesburg, South Africa. Matsotsi, however, does more than
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Places of Body: On Authors, Lives, and Agency Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Hosam Aboul-Ela
Edward Said’s life’s work illustrated the very argument for individual agency that became a theoretical focus for him beginning with his classic 1978 study, Orientalism.
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The Dream of Psychosocial Thinking Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Ankhi Mukherjee
This essay is a response to four peer reviews of Unseen City, touching on the key ideas showcased in each: the move in community psychoanalysis from an authoritative scripting of the cure to elaborations of care; the role of the public clinic in the global city; the post colonial uncanny; the contribution of literature to the psy-disciplines.
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An Ineffable Haunting: Language, Embodiment, and Ghosts in Toni Morrison’s Beloved Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Connor Lifson
Rereading Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, this article explores how Morrison’s work at the limits of language performs the haunting ties between the Reconstruction era and the present day by offering readers a way to experience a rememory of their own. By repeatedly emphasizing the inadequacy of language in expressing traumatic experience, Beloved encourages its readers to, like its characters, look
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Fiction Beyond Words: Music in J. M. Coetzee’s Jesus Novels Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Diana Mudura
J. M. Coetzee’s late work exhibits a productive dialogue between fiction and other arts as part of his interest in the possibilities of thinking in mediums other than ordinary language. Focusing particularly on the Jesus novels, this article examines the critical role of music and how Coetzee uses musical forms as literary strategies that open up alternative possibilities of communication and thinking
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Minding the Metropolis: Precarity, Urbanity, and Mental Conditions: A Response to Ankhi Mukherjee’s Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Avishek Parui
This article situates psychoanalysis, urbanity, and precarity apropos of the material, affective, and memory economy of the mutable metropolis marked by visuality, velocity, and violence. Responding to Ankhi Mukherjee’s Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor, the article examines the interplay of visibility and invisibility in a metropolis and how that is in close and complex correspondence
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Haddis Alemayehu’s Vision of the Old World: Literary Realism and the Tragedy of History in the Amharic Novel Fikir iske Mekabir Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Tesfaye Woubshet Ayele
Haddis Alemayehu’s classic novel ፍቅር እስከ መቃብር (Fikir iske Mekabir, Love until Death, 1958 Ethiopian Calendar, 1965/6 Gregorian Calendar), is lauded by critics as a pioneering realist and modern novel in the Amharic literary tradition. My aim in this article is to scrutinize this take by examining the novel’s narrative temporalities and modes through a dialectical lens. This leads me to argue that the
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The Cultural Underground of Decolonization Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Fatoumata Seck
The African liberation movements and the early phases of nation-building on the continent, intertwined with the Cold War and the global student movement, left behind an array of textual, visual, and sonic traces that circulated through underground and clandestine networks across Africa and beyond. These cultural products, which include materials in African languages, remain marginalized in studies
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Decolonizing African and African Diasporan Cultural Memory in Djanet Sears and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Works Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Pilar Cuder-Domínguez
This article proposes to look back onto the Black Canadian works produced around the turn of the twenty-first century to establish some of the decolonial practices they promoted, arguing that they remain pivotal in decentering the colonial gaze that to this day is at the root of anti-Black hatred. In the face of continued structural violence and anti-Black racism preeminent across Canada to date, it
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Encountering Others’ Empathy Toward Oneself in Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Saumya Lal
This article examines how Milla, the Afrikaner protagonist of Marlene van Niekerk’s post-apartheid novel Agaat, engages with others’ empathy toward herself. Theorizing empathy as a multivalent engagement with others’ experiences, I argue that Milla attempts to variously invite, avoid, and manipulate others’ empathy as she negotiates the anxiety of being misunderstood, the sense of vulnerability in
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Jinn and Jins: Sensuous Piety as Queer Ethics Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Hoda El Shakry
This article explores the speculative short stories of Egyptian writers Alifa Rifaat (Alīfah Rifaʿat, 1930–1996) and Mansoura Ez-Eldin (Mansūrah ʿIzz al-Dīn, b. 1976) in conversation with scholarship from the anthropology of Islam, Islamic feminism, and queer theory. Rifaat’s 1974 “ʿĀlamī al-Majhūl” (“My World of the Unknown”) and Ez-Eldin’s 2010 “Jinniyyāt al-Nīl” (“Faeries of the Nile”) both stage
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From the Heart of the Country to the European Core: J. M. Coetzee and los polacos Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Robert Kusek
The aim of this article is to investigate Coetzee’s decades-long, multifaceted, and, essentially, transnational dialogue with Poland and its cultural production—from Coetzee’s encounter of Polish poetry in the early 1960s until his 2022 novel El polaco. It intends to argue that Coetzee’s preoccupation with Polish literature and culture is part of a larger strategy of seeking new alliances and partnerships
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Stories of the Port: Response to Isabel Hofmeyr, Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Neelam Srivastava
Isabel Hofmeyr’s latest book begins with stories around and about the colonial port, though the initial spotlight is on decidedly nonnarrative texts such as classification lists of cargo items, customs handbooks, and what she intriguingly calls the “book-as-form,” namely diaries and registers. These, she says, “offered one unwitting model of colonial writing in which a template from the metropolis
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African Literatures in the Portuguese Language: Singularities Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Nazir Ahmed Can
This article reflects on some textual and institutional elements that distinguish literary life in Portuguese-speaking African countries. These elements concern, firstly, the peculiarities of the Portuguese empire. Combining precarity, epistemological backwardness, and violence in equal proportion, it inspired an artistic response that was consolidated even before the independences. Secondly, they
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Brazil—A New Republic of African Letters? Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Nazir Ahmed Can, Issaka Maïnassara Bano
Today, it is not the former colonial metropolis (Portugal), but a former colony (Brazil) that has become the main legitimizing center of African literature in the Portuguese language. It is also in Brazil that the largest number of studies on African literature written in other languages is produced. To illustrate this state of affairs, we begin by demonstrating how the work of Alain Mabanckou has
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Reader Response to Dockside Reading Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Isabel Hofmeyr
This piece responds to the three pieces on Dockside Reading. It provides background on the making of the book, its experimental nature, and discusses the ways in which the three responses extend the book’s reach and implications. The piece concludes with a description of the author’s new project, Elemental Reading.
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The Luso-African Literary World: Introduction Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Stefan Helgesson, Marcello G. P. Stella
With reference to the five articles in the special issue, this introduction reflects on the relative absence of Lusophone African literature from the mainstream of African literary studies. Because of the insular and backward nature of Portugal’s colonialism, the protracted wars in Angola and Mozambique, and the sheer magnitude of the postcolony of Brazil as a center for the reception of Lusophone
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Literary Studies Beyond “The Colonial Book”: A Response to Isabel Hofmeyr’s Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Kate Highman
In her discussion of censorship in Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House, Isabel Hofmeyr homes in on a figure of reading invoked by Nadine Gordimer in a letter protesting that the censors treat literature “as a commodity to be boiled down to its components and measured like a bar of soap.”1 Hofmeyr, recognizing that such reading echoes that of the officials of colonial custom houses
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Independent Publishing in Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and Guinea-Bissau Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Marcello G. P. Stella
Focusing on the work of independent publishers in Lusophone Africa, this article investigates the strategies undertaken by the publishers to develop their catalog and run a publishing house in challenging environments. My examples will be drawn from ongoing initiatives by Filinto Elísio and Márcia Souto (Rosa de Porcelana, Cape Verde), Miguel de Barros and Tony Tcheca (Corubal, Guinea-Bissau), Abdulai
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The Eurocentric Constant: An Approach to the Study of Mozambican Literature Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Helena González Doval
The study of Mozambican literature is present at various latitudes within the academic world. There are, however, different outlooks and interests that must be analyzed if we want to account for the epistemologies present when facing a postcolonial reality such as Mozambique. On the understanding that literary texts are codified cultural information and that academics function as legitimators of discourses
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Gray-Blue Law and Literature Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Stephanie Jones
This response to Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House reflects on the book’s significant contributions to the interdisciplinary study of law and literature.
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A Transnational Canon of African Literatures in Portuguese?: Mia Couto, José Eduardo Agualusa and the Circulation of Lusophone African Literature Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Marco Bucaioni
African literatures in Portuguese were first canonized in the 1970s. During and in the wake of decolonization, the main force driving their internationalization was the solidarity with the struggle for liberation. This trend weakened, however, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. At the same time, the 1990s marked a turn in the process of literary production that also corresponded with a shift
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Cormac McCarthy’s Racial Fictions: Race in Blood Meridian’s Colonial Imagination Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Kyle Wang
Situated within contemporary studies of Cormac McCarthy’s work, this article argues that existing discourse around Cormac McCarthy’s novel Blood Meridian suffers from a lack of critical engagement with the novel’s racial and colonial politics. Using racial capitalism as a framework, the article posits that McCarthy’s novel can be read not only as a story about American storytelling traditions, but
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Creolization, Hybridity and Archipelagic Thinking: Interrogating Inscriptions of Postcolonial Agency Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-01-24 H. Adlai Murdoch
The terms creolization and hybridity are neither parallel nor interchangeable. The former cannot be fully understood without taking into account its historical background and geographical context so that creolization is a phenomenon of exchange and transformation that is indispensable to understanding the New World experience. Hybridity, on the other hand, claims to provide a framework for avoiding
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The Creolizing Turn and Its Archipelagic Directions Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Ananya Jahanara Kabir
Recent years have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest across disciplines around the concept “creolization” even as there has been some pushback against this development in other academic quarters. This article contextualizes this state of art around “creolization” and presents an analytical overview of the term’s discursive history. First, I discuss the appearance of the term creole in several
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“A Refugee from Belief”: Agha Shahid Ali’s Poetics of Rupture Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Upasana Dutta
This article attempts a reassessment of the political aspirations within Agha Shahid Ali’s poetics through a close reading of The Country without a Post Office. Although Shahid’s formal innovations have often been prioritized over his political commitments within scholarly evaluations of his work, I contend that in this collection, Agha Shahid Ali practices a “poetics of rupture”: holding themes of
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The Informal Economy in Masande Ntshanga’s The Reactive Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Josh Jewell
The idea that (semi-)peripheral societies might follow developmental pathways distinct from those prescribed by globalization has been explored at length in the last twenty years by scholars such as G. G. Alcock, Rem Koolhaus, Jane Guyer, AbdouMaliq Simone, Achille Mbembe, and Sarah Nuttall. For scholars who have celebrated these kinds of sociality, the informal economy—as Keith Hart has called it—represents
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“On Reading Mau Mau” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Christian Alvarado
During the so-called “era decolonization” in Africa, few historical events held more salience than what is most commonly known as the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya (which covered the period from 1952 to 1960). This article examines not only how tropes about the nature and origins of Mau Mau were and are deployed across different semiotic landscapes, but also the ways in which their operations are made
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Linguistic Hybridization in the Emergence of Creoles Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Salikoko S. Mufwene
In this article I show how ubiquitous hybridity is in cultures. It is enabled by layers of population movements and contacts since the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa around 50,000 years ago. I demonstrate how hybridization has proceeded in the emergence of creole language varieties and show that the same process has also driven, for instance, the emergence and differential evolution of English
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Enduring Epidemic: Aesthetic Aftershocks of the 1914 Plague and the Segregation of Dakar Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Tobias Warner
In 1914, an epidemic of bubonic plague ravaged colonial Dakar. The panicked French colonial administration blamed the native population and evicted indigenous Africans from the city center before burning their homes. The Dakarois fought back through a general strike, political maneuvering, and, finally, by taking to the streets. Out of this year of disease, politics, racism, and resistance came the
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The Politics of Breastfeeding in Northeast Indian Literature Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Morgan Richardson Dietz
Breastfeeding, both in its literal consequences on a woman’s body and its symbolic associations with attachment, highlights the simultaneously powerful yet servile position of the maternal figure. I trace this ambivalence in Mahasweta Devi’s story “Breast-Giver,” exploring women’s literal and metaphorical hungers, as well as the hunger their children experience, arguing that breastfeeding often serves
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Refugees, Extinction, and the Regulation of Death in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Ewa Macura-Nnamdi
This article is an attempt to make sense of the paradox structuring the narrative of extinction in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men (2006), which juxtaposes a romanticized image of survival and rebirth and the ugliness of senseless death. Departing from a biopolitical framework, the article argues that Cuarón’s story represents extinction as beyond redemption yet as subject to regulation. Given the
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Latinx Internationalism and the French Atlantic: Sandra María Esteves in Art contre/against apartheid and Miguel Algarín in “Tangiers” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Sarah M. Quesada
This article interrogates the South-South internationalism of two renowned US Latinx poets: Miguel Algarín’s abjection in Morocco in his poem “Tangiers” and Sandra María Esteves’s anti-apartheid poetry for the French Art contre/against apartheid project, which included the controversial participation of Jacques Derrida. Although these poems focus on different contexts of African liberation, both react
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“Language and the Periphery” Response to Book Forum on Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Auritro Majumder
Auritro Majumder is Associate Professor of English at University of Houston. He is the author of Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and currently chair of the South Asian and Diasporic Languages, Literatures and Cultures forum of the Modern Language Association.
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Review essay on African Ecomedia and Teaching Postcolonial Environmental Literature Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Gugu Hlongwane
Cajetan Iheka’s African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics (2021) and his edited collection, Teaching Postcolonial Environmental Literature and Media (2022), importantly privilege—indeed celebrate—non-Western epistemologies at the very forefront of ecocriticism. In the former book, Africa is not “lagging” behind but is modeling sustainability for the future. This is a resourceful continent
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Digital African Literatures and the Coloniality of Data Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-10-11 James Yékú
Digital iterations of African literary texts present scholarly opportunities to interrogate how literature produced and circulated on digital media becomes entangled with the capitalist politics of datafication. In the data paradigm described in the article, literary representations are subject to the workings of neoliberal capital and the constraints of algorithmic systems. Through a postcolonial
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Campus Fiction and Critical University Studies from Below: Disgrace, Welcome to Our Hillbrow, and the Postcolonial University at the Millennium Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Anne W. Gulick
Two of South African literature’s best-known titles from the turn of the twenty-first century are works of campus fiction that rarely get recognized as such. In this article I read J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999) and Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow (2001) as novels whose figuration of the university is far more central to their treatment of the contradictions and ambiguities that characterize
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Resistance Movements: The Tempest, Resurgence, and Indigenous Performance on Turtle Island Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Glenn Clark
Inspired by the reinvigorating theory of Wai-Chee Dimok and Rita Felski, I argue that The Tempest resonates with current theory and performance of Indigenous resurgence in North America. With reference to the work of Indigenous performance theorist Floyd Favel, political thinkers Leanne Simpson and Glen Sean Coulthard, and to plays and performances by Yvette Nolan, Monique Mojica, Kevin Loring, and
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(In)Sights from Àwòrán: Yorùbá Epistemologies and the Limits of Cartesian Vision in Teju Cole’s Open City Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Utitofon Ebong Inyang
Teju Cole’s Open City is often read as the quintessential Western cosmopolitan novel. But despite the protagonist’s fixation with European aestheticism, the presence of African antecedents looms almost as an unacknowledged shadow in the acclaimed cosmopolitan novel. This article traces how Yorùbá visual registers about perception, subjectivity, and representation provide interpretative cues for understanding
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A Voice in the Crowd: The African Novel of Ideas Book Forum Response Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Jeanne-Marie Jackson
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Individual Epistemes in The African Novel of Ideas Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Cajetan Iheka
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The African Novel at the Vanguard Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra
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“Undoing the Laws of the Universe”: Reading Jeanne-Marie Jackson’s The African Novel of Ideas after #FeesMustFall Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Simon Van Schalkwyk
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Bahriye Kemal, Writing Cyprus: Postcolonial and Partitioned Literatures of Place and Space. Routledge, 2020, 312 pp. Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Marian Ofori-Amoafo
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What African Philosophy Can Learn from Jeanne-Marie Jackson’s The African Novel of Ideas Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Bruce B. Janz
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Communal Intellection and Individualism in the African Novel Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Ashleigh Harris
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Mobility as Memory: Refiguring Temporal and Spatial Mobility in Tan Twan Eng’s The Gift of Rain Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Ann Ang
This article discusses the operation of memory as an effect of narrative structure in The Gift of Rain, with a particular focus on the spatial and temporal mobility of narratorial perspective. Tan’s novel is situated within Malaysian writing in English, a body of minor literature in a minority language amid the country’s promotion of Bahasa as the linguistic medium for a national literature, alongside
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The New Jewish Question: To the memory of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, הי"ד Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Daniel Boyarin
In this article I attempt to lay out at least the bones of an argument for a shift in the terms of world Jewish life. Against the Hobson’s choice of “religion” or “state,” I offer an older paradigm of diaspora nation, the Yiddishe Folk. Because I am opposed to both the mononational state and cosmopolitanism (of the classic Appiah-like variety), I work out a description (not fully defined) of diaspora
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Nation and Sovereignty: A Response to Boyarin Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Partha Chatterjee
In his provocative article “The New Jewish Question,” Daniel Boyarin has offered a view of the Jewish nation as a collective identity that is not only diasporic but also “counter-sovereign.” I found his reappraisal of the history of Zionism very informative. Unfortunately, I do not have the competence to engage with it. But I do have a few things to say about his more general claim regarding the possibility
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As If You Were There Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Haun Saussy
What is involved in framing a counterfactual? Let’s say I have a daydream about living in Shakespeare’s time. Who would I be and what would I do? Well, I’d go to the Globe, that much I know for sure, and bring a notebook. Of course, it is impossible for me to have lived in Shakespeare’s time, for the “me” that is having this revery is the result of genealogies, circumstances, and relationships that
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“Not just for their own use …”: Solidarity in Times of Discord Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Olga V. Solovieva
In May 2015, I happened to visit Frankfurt am Main, where during my haphazard exploration of the city I blindly strolled into the building of the Bockenheimer Depot where a new opera was to premiere that evening. It was entitled “Am unseren Fluße” (By Our River), as I saw on the banner outside, and I thought it would be something ecological. I was more interested in the building than in the show, but
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Comments on “The New Jewish Question” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Faisal Devji
If the “old” Jewish Question had asked how a Jew could be a citizen, the “new” one posed by Daniel Boyarin’s remarkable and courageous article asks how nationality can exist without a state. Striking about this formulation is the distance it marks from the European debates about emancipation and assimilation that had defined its predecessor. Boyarin’s context is not continental but imperial, taking
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On a Double Decker Omnibus to Golders Green Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Bryan Cheyette
My abiding memory of Daniel Boyarin is sitting with him on the top deck of one of London’s famous red buses. We were traveling to Golders Green to eat a kosher meal after a conference in central London. It was the summer of 1994, at the height of Western optimism that the Oslo Accords would bring the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to an end. This optimism, however naive, resulted in an extraordinary
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Communities Are Complicated; Indeed, They May Not Even Be Communal Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Sander L. Gilman
My old friend Daniel Boyarin has raised, not for the first time, the problem of whether one can imagine what he calls “an ethical form of Jewish collective continuity.” He strikes out against the notion of such a “Jewish” ethical continuity seeing it having been negated in the present discussion, the negation driven by two arguments, “[Christian] supersessionism” on the right and “territorial nationalism”
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What I Have Learned Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Daniel Boyarin
I will begin by thanking Professor Quayson and all of the contributors to this forum with the deepest of gratitude. I deem it a great privilege to have been engaged with in such depth and seriousness by such a group of superb interlocutors, all of whom seem nearly completely to have understood my project, even when more negatively reflecting on it. As a version of the Talmud would have said: it is
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Before Race, and After Race: A Response to the Forum on The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Geraldine Heng
Dorothy Kim’s response to my 2018 book, The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, opens with the quotation above, taken from the book itself. In requoting, I’ve emphasized the words thinking critically because most of the articles in this forum see that Invention of Race is scholarship that emerges out of the varied genealogical traditions of critical race theories, even as the book works