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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 200–228.
Published: 01 November 2008
... and Cultural Studies 10 ( 2003 ): 105 –30. Chabal , Patrick . Vozes Moçambicanas: Literatura e Nacionalidade . Lisboa: Vega, 1994 . Chatterjee , Partha . The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories . Princeton: Princeton UP, 1993 . Chatterjee , Partha...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 163–168.
Published: 01 May 2010
...: Postcolonial Citation in The Pagoda Wendy W. Walters Contemporary African diasporic literature often displays “the allure of the archive.” Novelists Michelle Cliff, Patricia Powell, and Maryse Condé, to name a few, encode archival documents in their narratives, revising the remnants found...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 189–196.
Published: 01 May 2010
... engagement with the question of fictiveness should be on the agenda of political criticism. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Literature, Fictiveness, and Postcolonial Criticism Alok Yadav The question I address is the following: what is our understanding...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 242–260.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Raji Vallury My article studies the implications of Jacques Rancière's concepts of literary misunderstanding and political dissensus for our understanding of the politics of postcolonial fiction. The disjunctive junction that Rancière establishes between the politics of aesthetics...
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Novel (2006) 39 (2): 245–267.
Published: 01 August 2006
... –80. Chakrabarty , Dipesh . Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference . Princeton: Princeton UP, 2000 . Chaudhuri , Amit . “In the Waiting-Room of History.” London Review of Books 26.12 ( 2004 ). Derrida , Jacques . Of Grammatology . Trans...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 339–359.
Published: 01 August 2022
... connection to that same community, articulates a desire to “blow up the bridges and dams!” (519) as though he briefly recognizes the infrastructural foundations of colonial and postcolonial capitalism. Inspired by Chilean artist Lotty Rosenfeld's Mile of Crosses (526), the three friends vandalize the stop...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 409–425.
Published: 01 November 2017
...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...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 485–489.
Published: 01 November 2015
... handled by Gui's monograph. Another fundamental intervention lies in the discussion of Malyasian fiction in English, which persuasively asserts its relevance to postcolonial studies and diasporic literary studies. For scholars of Adorno, moreover, this book will serve as a powerful demonstration...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 461–481.
Published: 01 November 2018
... tool for analyzing postcolonial literatures. Doing so, however, requires us to jettison Lukács's progressive historicism in favor of a model of literary history shaped by uneven temporalities and a fundamental disjunction between the historical perspectives of settler and nonsettler communities—thus...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 278–294.
Published: 01 August 2016
... readings of two contemporary novelists: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria) and Chetan Bhagat (India). Despite coming from different countries and political positions, both authors break open existing paradigms in postcolonial literature and represent a new imagining of the potential relationship between...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 323–343.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Paul Stasi This essay takes up the relationship between modernism and postcolonialism through a comparison of Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim and Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies . What Conrad understands as a crisis in narrative form is, I argue, a function of his understanding of history as the absolute...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 400–409.
Published: 01 November 2009
...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...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 339–361.
Published: 01 August 2018
... literary studies and postcolonial theory. Whereas the postcolonial-cum-global field tends to prioritize categorical expansiveness and dissolution in African writing, equating structural and conceptual more-than-oneness with pluralism of a clearly political expression, “Plurality in Question” suggests...
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 96–114.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Bede Scott Abstract Situated at the intersection of postcolonialism and affect studies, this essay explores the significance of wonder in Hanya Yanagihara's The People in the Trees (2013). In her novel, Yanagihara provides a detailed account of an anthropological expedition to the remote...
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 86–108.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Gregory Dobbins This article focuses on what the author calls “Irish time” in Flann O'Brien's 1939 novel At Swim-Two-Birds . The author equates the form of this novel with a tension between a progressive form of modernization advocated by the postcolonial state and a deeper cultural and social...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 251–270.
Published: 01 August 2010
... the predicament of the well-married wife has implications for the much-debated question of the novel's relationship to homosexuality and to the “closet.” The argument reverses the more common view of postcolonial and queer theorists concerning orientalism and perversion in Stoker's novel by suggesting that what...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 183–189.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Susan Z. Andrade Until recently, studies of postcolonial African novels emphasized the genre's relation to anticolonial critique and its expression of collective resistance. In response to the overwhelming assumption that novels from Africa were primarily anthropological artifacts rather than works...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 85–103.
Published: 01 May 2021
...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...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 61–94.
Published: 01 May 2022
...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...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 329–337.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Jonathan Arac Examining changes in the study of the novel since Novel began publication in 1967, this essay focuses on the current importance of world literature as a topic for debate and exploration and suggests that complex relationships with the study of postcolonial literature have helped...