Literature, Critique, and Empire Today (formerly JCL) is the leading critical and bibliographic forum in the field of Commonwealth and postcolonial literatures.
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I'm editing a special issue of Literature, Critique, and Empire Today (formerly @JCLJournal) on Genre Fiction in a Global Frame. CFP below! Deadline for abstracts 15 July.
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"Indigenous Feminisms across the World, Part 1," an issue of @M3RIDIANS, is now available. The articles in this special issue expose, challenge, and resist contemporary colonial realities. View the full TOC and read the intro, freely available: ow.ly/tyjp50RzQsE
ALT Cover of Indigenous Feminisms Across the World Part 1, a special issue of Meridians volume 23, issue 1. Features an artwork depicting a female figure, barbed wire, and poppy flowers. The artwork, a collaboration between the artist Dana Barqawi and the writer Hind Shoufanie, is adorned with gold leaf, thread and newspaper clippings.
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A research project, funded by the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), has helped realise the long-held dream of South Africa’s ǂKhomani community to share their proud history with the rest of the world.
Full story: bit.ly/4aMkmFj
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Please see, and share, our CFP for a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies on “Planetary Fiction: African Literature and Climate Change.”
Guest Editors: Nedine Moonsamy (Johannesburg) and David Shackleton (Cardiff)
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On April 4th, the Centre for the Less Good Idea organized an amazing event featuring Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka in conversation with South African artist William Kentridge and musician Neo Muyanga.
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Just a few days left for submitting to the third APT symposium pocothought.com/desireandcol…
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We invite graduate students, early career historians, and scholars in adjacent fields to submit an abstract for our annual conference, "Colonialism, Conflict & Commemoration."
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📷 More information on our website: oxfordtghs.com/conference
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New Publication OUT. Postcolonial Theory and Crisis. Paulo de Medeiros and Sandra Ponzanesi (eds). De Gruyter, 2024. Available Open access:degruyter.com/document/doi/1…
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Cover of my new book #OurIslandStories: Country Walks Through Colonial Britain. There's a cotton walk, an enclosure walk, a copper walk and much more. With thanks and admiration for my 10 amazing hiking companions @Sathnam @ArtBhartiParmar, Ingrid Pollard @adjoaparker @zakiasewell @RajwinderSPal @CllrGrahamC @peterkalu Ibrahima Seck and Charlotte Williams
Out May 2nd:
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The deadline to submit an application to the Modern South Asia Workshop 2024 is approaching! Please be sure to complete your application by 4:00PM ET on February 29. Review of submissions will begin on March 1.
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Brilliant new OA article by our project Co-I, Prof Andrew van der Vlies: "Common/wealth: Contested commons and proleptic critique" out with @JCLJournal
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The very best of news! Overjoyed that Frame is getting a well-deserved reissue for her centenary year.
There’s still 24 hours to submit an article abstract for our Frame centenary issue with @JCLJournal #JanetFrameAt100
We are very happy to announce the reissue of Janet Frame’s THE EDGE OF THE ALPHABET & Edward Said’s THE QUESTION OF PALESTINE in our classics list this autumn, with further books by both Frame and Said to follow. More details here: thebookseller.com/rights/fit…
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It's published! Very excited to see our 'Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World' special issue of Slavery and Abolition out. It includes thought-provoking articles considering the role that emotion played in the maintenance and resistance of slavery. tandfonline.com/toc/fsla20/c…
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"The Ocean on Fire" by @MaurerAnais foregrounds Pacific literature as a key archive for thriving in an environment bombarded with the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb a day for half a century. Read the free intro! #EnvironmentalStudies #NativeStudies ow.ly/hazM50Qxo2u
ALT Cover of The Ocean on Fire: Pacific Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists by Anaïs Maurer. Cover features abstract batik art in bright orange, blue, and red, that is reminiscent of a jellyfish. The title and author name are in white type over the art.
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Wonderful new production of Sam Selvon’s Iconic novel of black London The Lonely Londoners; adapted for stage by Roy Williams @PenguinClassics
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Call for papers: special centenary issue on #JanetFrame for @JCLJournal, inviting new readings of Frame's fiction, poetry, life writing, & reception
🗓️Abstracts due 15th Feb
📚Postgrads & ECRs very welcome
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Really looking forward to delivering the Tanner Lecture in Cambridge on Feb 5. The title of the lecture is: "Intimations of Apocalypse: Catastrophist and Gradualist Imaginings of the Planetary Future."
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Happy publication day! What an honour and pleasure to have worked with Ato Quayson @CriticReading and made common cause with a brilliant roster of collaborators: Paul Giles, Joe Cleary, Margery Fee, Deanna Reder, Elizabeth McMahon, Brinda Bose, @AarthiVadde, Joanne Leow, – at Oxford, England
📚🤝 Let's redefine English literature, humanities, and the university with an unwavering commitment to racial and social justice.
Don't miss out on this transformative read! 📢 #DecolonizeLit #OpenAccess #LiteraryDiversity #SocialJustice
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New issue of Critical African Studies @CrASJournal now out, with focus on 'African Youth, Popular Arts, and Cultural Politics in Everyday Life.' tandfonline.com/toc/rcaf20/c…