Posts Tagged: feminism

PSA Newsletter #31 (October 2024)

The PSA Newsletter #31 focuses on the theme “Exploring/ Expanding/ Challenging the Postcolonial Canon”, which will invite readers to ask crucial questions about both the limits of the label “postcolonial” and the criteria that determine a literary work as part of the “canon” of postcolonial literature. Following a letter to the Association’s members with updates from the PSA’s Executive Committee, the issue continues with eight original contributions. Aminat Emma Badmus opens the newsletter with an exploration of Akwaeke Emezi’s Dear Senthuran: ...
November 11, 2024 in News, Newsletters 0 Comments
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New Publication – Domestic Intersections in Contemporary Migration Fiction: Homing the Metropole

Domestic Intersections in Contemporary Migration Fiction: Homing the Metropole (Routledge, 2019) by Lucinda Newns Domestic Intersections in Contemporary Migration Fiction responds to the need for a more materialist perspective on migration by reorienting the focus on domesticity and the everyday practices of homemaking and away from a celebratory and aestheticized reading of displacement. Centering on Britain as the location of arrival, its readings of canonical and underexplored works of diasporic fiction emanating from Africa, South Asia and the Caribbean foreground the significance ...
January 30, 2020 in News, Publications 0 Comments
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