Close reading of Yousif M. Qasmiyeh’s Writing the Camp Serena Alagappan Yousif Qasmiyeh shatters and reconstructs a traditional conception of time in order to understand how time enigmatically exists in the BaddawiRead More…
Jackie Kay: Identity, Secrecy, and Love C. J. Griffin SOMEBODY ELSE If I was not myself, I would be somebody else.But actually I am somebody else.I have been somebody else all myRead More…
Close reading of Nikesh Shukla’s Brown Baby Moneeka Thakur ‘The freezer is empty. There is nothing there. A bag of frozen peas, frosted over with age. There are two old clear plasticRead More…
An analysis of Roger Robinson’s A Portable Paradise Gavin Herbertson Robinson’s work has always tackled subject-matter and themes which many would consider controversial and has drawn in a diverse array of sourcesRead More…
Close reading of Monica Ali’s Brick Lane C. S. Bhagya Brick Lane is a novel whose events span decades and wide geographical distances. The narrative focus shifts from Mymensingh District, East PakistanRead More…
Close reading of Inua Ellams’s ‘Fuck / Tupac’ from The Actual Chelsea Haith In this short essay we take a closer look at how Ellams’s verse integrates contemporary cultural references and largerRead More…
A close-reading of Anthony Joseph’s ‘Bosch’s Vision’ from Bird Head Son (2009) Christopher J. Griffin The focus of this commentary is on the first poem of Anthony Joseph’s third poetry collection, BirdRead More…
Reflections on Raymond Antrobus’s ‘I Want the Confidence of’ Daniele Nunziata This commentary section features Raymond Antrobus’ poem ‘I Want the Confidence of’ from his collection The Perseverance. The poem explores theRead More…
A House for Mr Biswas has been canonized, as Harish Trivedi says, ‘as one of the greatest postcolonial novels in English’. […]
Close reading of Diran Adebayo’s Some Kind of Black Chelsea Haith The following extract is taken from pp. 86–88, Chapter 5, “Welcome to the Fold”, of Some Kind of Black (Little, Brown, 1996). NoRead More…