The JPW's latest special issue on Liminal Diasporas is now available online. Read Rahul K. Gairola, Sarah Courtis, & Tim Flanagan's timely introduction to the issue 'Liminal diasporas in the era of COVID-19' here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Read the introduction to the new special issue “Liminal diasporas in the era of COVID-19” in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing: bit.ly/3q0KiWk Journal of Postcolonial Writing Rahul K Gairola

We are delighted to share the publication of the #LiminalDiasporas special issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing It emerges from the June 2019 #RecalibratingDiasporas conference Murdoch University (with Rahul K Gairola Dr Melissa Merchant & others!). Please have a look and share bit.ly/3q0KiWk

My essay, "Neutralizing English: Han Suyin and the Language Politics of Third World Literature," is out. It examines how English acquires its supposedly neutral significance by looking at the politics of race & language in Cold War Malaya doi.org/10.1080/174498…

The JPW's latest special issue: 'Han Suyin: Literature, Politics and Translation' is now available online. Read Feng Cui & Alex Tickell's introduction to the issue 'Han Suyin: The little voice of decolonizing Asia' here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In the JPW, Fiona Lee examines the language politics of Third World Literature and Han Suyin, arguing the 'neutrality' of English ought to be understood in relation to forestalled Third World movements and racialized antagonisms in postcolonial nations. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In our recent special issue, Shirley Chew unfurls the self-fashioning of autobiography in Han Suyin's 'My House Has Two Doors': tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Interested? If so, you might qualify to become a Special Issues Editor for the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Learn more here: bit.ly/RJPWCallforSIE… PSA #PostcolonialWriting

In a recent JPW article, Tsivia Frank Wygoda walks us through Strasbourg as 'an object more than a location', revealing that Francophone and Germanophone writings 'reveal a new imaginary that envisions the crossroads city as a postcolonial heterotopia': tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My article on Zimbabwe’s precarious diaspora in South Africa in Sue Nyathi The Gold-Diggers has just been published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

'In the poetry of Dan Taulapapa McMullin, the queer body is the decolonial weapon of choice.' Read Mandy Treagus's exploration of queer pacific mobilities and the poetry of McMullin in the JPW: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Still learning from the life & writing of Steve Biko after all these years. Such rich & ongoing empowerment. Open Access - read and enjoy. Feedback very welcome. Storying ourselves: Black Consciousness thought and adolescent agency in 21st-century Africa tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Publication 📄 Researchers from our team published this article in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, on how Accelerate Research Hub workshops introduced #adolescents to a practice of storytelling inspired by South African anti-apartheid activist #SteveBiko. Read the article here: bit.ly/3fZDUvx

In a recent JPW article, Augustine Clay reads Lloyd Fernando’s 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘱𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘖𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘥 alongside Antony bin Thomas' 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 as sharing a socio-aesthetic of allegorical realism in responding to the 1969 Chinese-Malay conflict. Read here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Calvin Fung explores Hong Kong as a Gothic locale through the now-demolished Kowloon Walled City depicted in Rebecca Bradley and Stewart Sloan’s novel 𝘛𝘦𝘮𝘶𝘵𝘮𝘢. Read the article here in the JPW: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Pleased to receive my contributor’s copy of this new book, based on a special issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Thanks to @CarolineKoegler and the team for making this happen!