...John Marx This essay observes that recent city novels set in the global South often depart from earlier postcolonial fiction, in which the sense of geopolitical possibility remained tethered to the promise and limitations of nation-states. To alter that habit, contemporary fiction updates...

... . New Delhi : Indialog , 2007 . 143 – 77 . Dalley Hamish . The Postcolonial Historical Novel . Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2014 . Dalley Hamish , and Wilson Rohan . “ In Defence of ‘the Lesser Cousin of History’: An Interview with Rohan Wilson .” Ariel 45 . 4...

...Jesse McCarthy Abstract The category of the postcolonial novel is familiar, but what makes a novel anti colonial? This article attempts to answer this question by reconstructing a genealogy of anticolonial fiction. I argue that these novels are preeminently the product of a social and intellectual...

... of politics is shaped first and foremost by a sustained inquiry into the poetics of sense, or an aisthesis (the experience of sense, sensation, and sensibility), I try to bridge the conceptual gap he establishes between the sensible of aesthetics and the sensible of politics. Using a postcolonial novel, Tahar...

... Ibis trilogy, these novels stage a reengagement with the archives of imperialism and oppression to discuss global rather than national histories, from the viewpoint of the marginalized. Frameworks such as the postcolonial historical novel or postmodern historiographical metafiction obscure the novelty...

... in Emergent India .” Popular Communication 11 . 1 ( 2013 ): 58 – 75 . Cohen Shana . Searching for a Different Future: The Rise of a Global Middle Class in Morocco . Durham : Duke UP , 2004 . Dalley Hamish . “ Postcolonialism and the Historical Novel: Epistemologies of Contemporary...

... the problem of U.S. exceptionalism. Copyright © 2018 by Novel, Inc. 2018 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. anglophone novel program era postcolonial literature global South realism American exceptionalism...

...Peter Leman Abstract This article examines Nuruddin Farah's 1979 novel Sweet and Sour Milk , asking how we read representations of postcolonial mourning and living death in the context of global authoritarianism. The first novel in Farah's influential dictatorship trilogy, Sweet and Sour Milk...

...Edward Larkin Dalley Hamish , The Postcolonial Historical Novel: Realism, Allegory, and the Representation of Contested Pasts New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2014 , pp. 240, Hardcover, $90 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Since the 1970s, when Hayden White's...

... and women, particularly within hierarchies of imperialism. Through an analysis of parks as pedagogical and performative spaces, Kalliney is able to connect modernist Mrs. Dalloway to the postcolonial Lonely Londoners. For the West Indian "boys" in the novel, urban spaces become sites in which...

... of the book then proceeds to locate this conception in a set of postcolonial novels. Cliff's Abeng and No Telephone to Heaven “undertake a radical postcolonial geography that seeks [to] . . . remake Jamaica as place by reinspiriting it with temporalities that precede and exceed capital” (237–38). Cliff...

...Mrinalini Chakravorty COOPPAN VILASHINI , Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing ( Stanford : Stanford UP , 2009 ), pp. 354 , cloth, $65.00 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Worlding the Nation...

... of ideas among the contributors about what counts as historical motion, though, it is important to put a finer point on what is accomplished here by comparing the contribution of this special issue of Novel to the field of postcolonial studies with the contribution of WReC: what is “worlding realism...

... in postcolonial novels. In order to make this case, he has to overcome a great deal of cynicism. Cynicism about governing is of course not utterly unfounded. Still, we must be equally suspicious of how its assumptions restrict the range of legitimate actions available to postcolonial protagonists as well...

... realist art based on dated assumptions about the European novel. They expand the category of realism to include examples from the realisms of late Victorian theater; postcolonial fiction from African, Egyptian, and Indian milieus; and photojournalistic experiments wrought in response to revolution...

... of the country she finds "alien" or questions the imperial mission. Her "postcolonial" novel The Semi-Detached House (1859)redefines the English home in a changing world: the novel's semi-detached suburban villa is the site at which class divisions are strategically obscured while racial differences...

...Rosemary Marangoly George This essay argues that tracking Kamala Markandaya's literary career enables us to see, in retrospect, some of the blind spots of the postcolonial literary critical frame within which we have situated novels produced by third-world writers in the twentieth century...

... own projects, is documentation under construction, a form of digging and building between narrative and archive, participating in the ongoing question of how postcolonial novels write diaspora identities. Even Novel: A Forum on Fiction 43:1  DOI 10.1215/00295132-2009-077  © 2010 by Novel, Inc...

...: A Forum on Fiction 44:1  DOI 10.1215/00295132-1164338  © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 12 novel | spring 2011 “simultaneity” or “overlap” of different modes, times, or actual forms of temporal- ity itself undergirds the postcolonial novel’s capacity to “implicate” the “cultural projects of both...

... NoViolet Bulawayo African literature pluralism postcolonialism literary nationalism Copyright © 2018 by Novel, Inc. 2018 The 1975 English-language Mungoshi classic Waiting for the Rain , with its revealing occlusion of South Africa in favor of a Shona-versus-overseas dichotomy, seems...