Newsletters

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: ... Read more

PSA Newsletter #30 (October 2023)

The PSA Newsletter #30 focuses on the theme “Decolonizing the Ecological Crisis”, and explores notions of the Anthropocene, human and more-than-human agency, as well as examining the intersections between colonialism and our current ecological challenges through the lens of storytelling. It features six original contributions. Athira Unni examines the lasting legacies of colonialism on postcolonial landscapes and ecological conditions in South Asia through analysis of Manjula Padmanabhan’s contemporary dystopian novel Escape. Mettin Jacob analyses Kota Neelima’s novel Shoes of the Deadto ... Read more

PSA Newsletter #29 (April 2023)

The PSA Newsletter #29 focuses on the theme “The Ambivalent Machismo: Representation, Mediascape, and Female Leads in Cinema”,and explores notions of femininity, stereotypes of hegemonic masculinity, and the politics of media representation, especially cinema. It features four original contributions that engage with cinematic representations of womanhood from different perspectives: Syed Amaan Raza Rizvi discusses the evolution of female characters in Indian commercial cinema; Esti Sugiharti explores postcolonial Chinese femininities through analysis of Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians film; Yasmin Chaudhuri discusses ... Read more

PSA Newsletter #28 (September 2022)

The PSA Newsletter #28 focuses on the theme “Loving the Stranger”, exploring notions of identity, (un)belonging, homesickness, and love in relation to the immigrant experience. It features five original articles, comprising Kim Novick’s powerful account of her personal experience, as well as critical contributions by Aiman Khattak, Bethany Shepherd, Lara El Mekkawi, and Margarida Pereira Martins, respectively. The issue also features three book reviews – Vivienne Tailor’s review of Culinary Diplomacy’s Role in the Immigrant Experience: Fiction and Memoirs of Middle ... Read more

PSA Newsletter #27 (February 2022)

The PSA Newsletter #27 focuses on Indigenous studies, and it features four original contributions on the impacts and legacies of the Indian residential school system by Emma Barnes, Franck Mioux, Marie-Eve Bradette, and Anastasia Goana, respectively. This issue also features two reports on conferences engaging with Indigenous voices and stories, one by Chelsea Fritz and one by Emma Barnes; a PSA funding report by Priyanka Tripathi; a follow-up interview with Bhagya Casaba Somashekar, winner of the 2019 PSA/JPW Essay Prize; and ... Read more

PSA Newsletter #26 (December 2020)

This newsletter features an original contribution on the role of the homeland in modern Arabic poetry by Hajar Mahfoodh, a PSA funding report by Sneha Reddy, interviews with the two PSA/JPW Essay Prize Winners Alexander Bell and Maya Caspari and reviews of recent books in postcolonial studies. Mara Mattoscio reviews Sandra Ponzanesi and Adriano José Habed’s edited collection Postcolonial Intellectuals in Europe: Critics, Artists, Movements, and their Publics. Smriti Singhgives us an insight into Lawrence Aje, Thomas Lacroix, and Judith Misrahi-Barak’s volume Re-Imagining the Guyanas and ... Read more

PSA Newsletter #25 (June 2020)

PSA Newsletter #25 is a special issue on ‘Decolonising Academia?’ Our contributors critically engage with calls for decolonisation academia, examining different aspects of the university and its practises from a range of geographical and linguistic perspectives, including interrogating to what extent decolonial thought can take place in a neo-liberal academia, emphasising the importance of associate tutor training in decolonising the university, examining how the English language has colonised academia, and considering how we can decolonise academia beyond postcolonial studies. This issue also features reports about an international ... Read more

PSA Newsletter #24 (January 2020)

This is the convention issue of the PSA Newsletter, covering the 2019 Postcolonial Studies Association Convention, which took place at the University of Manchester, from 11-13 September. The conference theme was ‘Postcolonial Justice’ and this is a topic that many of our contributions engage with in different ways. We feature reflections by the PSA chair and the conference organisers, an extract from one of the keynotes and a discussion of postcolonial justice and branding. This issue also includes a report on ... Read more

The PSA Newsletter #23 (August 2019)

This special issue of the PSA newsletter focuses on Postcolonialism and Visual Culture. Our contributors examine how the relationship between these two fields has evolved in the last ten years, and ask how postcolonial visual culture represents and engages with the histories and processes of the colonial and the postcolonial. This issue also includes reports on events such as the Australian Association for Caribbean Studies 2019 conference, the launch of the New Voices in Postcolonial Studies network and an International Showcase event ... Read more

Call for Contributions: PSA Newsletter #23 – Postcolonialism & Visual Culture

In "Notes on Postcolonial Visual Culture" (2011), Arvind Rajagopal points out that Analysts of visual culture have only recently begun to reckon with the complexity of postcolonial visual culture, acknowledging that it presents discontinuous temporalities and complex aesthetic forms that challenge routine ways of relating the history of media form to conventional historical processes. (11) In this special issue of the PSA newsletter we examine how the relationship between postcolonialism and visual culture has evolved in the last ten years, and we ask ... Read more
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