JCL

🥁We are excited to announce that The Journal of Commonwealth Literature will change its name to Literature, Critique, and Empire Today! 🥁 Stay tuned for insightful articles and fresh perspectives on contemporary literary critique #Literature #NewBeginnings #AcademicJournals

✌️OUT NOW✌️my new book w/ @SAModernism @RoutledgeLit explores how literature contextualises the climate crisis within a history of capitalist-imperialism & helps us imagine a habitable and just world for all forms of life 🧵1/7

We look forward to celebrating this new chapter with you all!📖🎬🎉✨

Wrapped up the event with closing remarks by the esteemed Suvir Kaul @PennEnglish.

🎉We are absolutely thrilled to announce the new name of our journal: Literature, Critique, and Empire Today🎉 We celebrated this milestone with insightful discussions, panels, and Q&As @QMUL. Check out our slick new copies!✨🧵

Read about the changing valences of the terms 'Commonwealth' and 'empire' through the lens of South Asian studies in this fascinating article by @shameemblack, co-editor of @southasiajsas 🌏#SouthAsianStudies #TransnationalPower #Commonwealth #Empire journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Discover the journey behind the transformation of JCL 🌟📰 Written by ex-editors @clarachambara & @Rachael_Gilmour, the article explores the journal's present and future avenues. Don't miss this thought-provoking read! #PostcolonialStudies journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Read all about this new & exciting chapter in a special editorial by @RehanaSara & @pravinch_s featuring ten must-read articles!📚 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

🥁We are excited to announce that The Journal of Commonwealth Literature will change its name to Literature, Critique, and Empire Today! 🥁 Stay tuned for insightful articles and fresh perspectives on contemporary literary critique #Literature #NewBeginnings #AcademicJournals

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.

"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

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

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) #Planetary" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">press.jhu.edu/journals/mfs-m…

And the pen, of course, is mightier than the knife. Out now. @SalmanRushdie

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. buff.ly/3Ug8RQx

Just a few days left for submitting to the third APT symposium pocothought.com/desireandcolle…

We invite graduate students, early career historians, and scholars in adjacent fields to submit an abstract for our annual conference, "Colonialism, Conflict & Commemoration." 🚨 Tell your friends and colleagues 🚨 📷 More information on our website: oxfordtghs.com/conference

New Publication OUT. Postcolonial Theory and Crisis. Paulo de Medeiros and Sandra Ponzanesi (eds). De Gruyter, 2024. Available Open access:#overview" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">degruyter.com/document/doi/1…