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July 23, 2024
The Ocean on Fire
Bombarded with the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb a day for half a century, Pacific people have long been subjected to man-made cataclysm. Well befo…
February 3, 2024
Thought's Wilderness
While much recent ecocriticism has questioned the value of nature as a concept, Thought's Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature (Stan…
May 31, 2023
World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth
World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics (Fordham UP, 2020) recovers a genealogy of anticolonial…
May 10, 2023
Debt, Law, Realism
In the decade before and after independence, Nigerians not only adopted the novel but reinvented the genre. Nigerian novels imagined the new state, wi…
March 4, 2023
Writing the Classroom
Writing the Classroom: Pedagogical Documents As Rhetorical Genres (UP of Colorado, 2022) explores how faculty compose and use pedagogical documents to…
February 11, 2023
Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics
Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics (Ohio State UP, 2022) brings together emerging and established voices at the nexus of…
February 7, 2023
On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World
On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890 (Cambridge UP, 2022) is the first interdisciplinary history of L…
January 6, 2023
Heterotopic World Fiction
After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps' book Heterotopic World Fiction:…
December 6, 2022
Kala Pani Crossings
When used in India, the term Kala pani refers to the cellular jail in Port Blair, where the British colonisers sent a select category of freedom fight…
November 30, 2022
Literature and the Environment
Bringing together 100 essential critical articles across 4 volumes, Literature and the Environment: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2021) is…
November 29, 2022
Diaspora As Translation and Decolonisation
Ipek Demir's book Diaspora As Translation and Decolonisation (Manchester UP, 2022) engages critically with existing conceptualisations of diaspora, ar…
November 17, 2022
Violent Phenomena
Frantz Fanon wrote in 1961 that 'Decolonisation is always a violent phenomenon,' meaning that the violence of colonialism can only be counteracted in …
November 14, 2022
Entanglements
Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South (Ibidem Press, 2022) scrutinizes current debates to bring historical and contemporar…
November 14, 2022
World Literature and the Question of Genre in Colonial India
In 1818, the East India Company defeated the Maratha confederacy, acquiring vast domains in central and western India. Through coercion if not outrigh…
November 10, 2022
Literature for a Changing Planet
Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastrophe. Reading literature in a time of …
October 14, 2022
Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization
Sandeep Banerjee's book Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-Figurations of the Postcolony (Routledge, 2021) illuminates the spatial …
October 7, 2022
The Disposition of Nature
How do literature and other cultural forms shape how we imagine the planet, for better or worse? In this rich, original, and long awaited book, Jennif…
October 5, 2022
V. S. Naipaul's Journeys
The author of more than thirty books of fiction and nonfiction and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018) is one of the mo…
September 26, 2022
India After World History
In the twenty-first century, terms such as globalization, global, and world function as key words at the cusp of new frontiers in both historical writ…
September 6, 2022
Temporal Politics
In Temporal Politics: Contested Pasts, Uncertain Futures (Edinburgh UP, 2022), Adrian Little demonstrates how different conceptions of past, present a…
September 5, 2022
Narrative in the Anthropocene
In Narrative in the Anthropocene (Ohio State UP, 2022), Erin James poses two complementary questions: What can narrative teach us about our current ge…
August 18, 2022
South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and the Rise of Global English
Ever since T.B. Macaulay leveled the accusation in 1835 that 'a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India…
August 8, 2022
Decolonising the Conrad Canon
With the pressing work of decolonising our reading lists gaining traction in UK higher educational contexts, Decolonising the Conrad Canon (Liverpool …
August 3, 2022
The Obsolete Empire
Modernist literature at the end of the British empire challenges conventional notions of homeland, heritage, and community. The waning British empire …