Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Postcolonial Text is an international, refereed, multi-disciplinary electronic journal presenting a global forum for both the critical discussion of postcolonial literature, culture, history, and theory, as well as postcolonial poetry and fiction. Thus Postcolonial Text provides a public space on the internet through which to disseminate otherwise difficult-to-access literary texts among a larger, truly international audience. It is concerned with ways of negotiating the various epistemological, cultural, social, and political links and disjunctures between postcolonial, western, and diasporic communities of writers, readers, and academics.

Postcolonial Text fosters critical discussions about the culturally contested and, at times, theoretically slippery terrain of postcolonial studies. In particular, this e-journal examines the relationship between postcolonial studies, diaspora studies and such newly emerging fields as transnational cultural and globalization studies. The journal invites work that is concerned with different concepts of the nation; transnational and translocal forms of belonging; cosmopolitanisms; competing sites and venues of cultural knowledge production; the aesthetics and politics of postcolonial writing; cultural memory; the gap between the social and cultural realities of postcolonial writers and their critical reception at home and abroad; and the relationships between various modes of scripting oral, written, and visual texts across different cultures.

At the same time, the journal recognizes that postcolonial studies can be appropriated as a master discourse of cultural identity that tends to homogenize and regulate culturally and geographically vastly different texts and identities. In order to remain critical of academically instituted forms of cultural knowledge production, Postcolonial Text remains committed to a rigorous analysis of the neocolonial and uneven power relationships between the North and the South at the crossroads of class, gender, and race.

The following are some of Postcolonial Text's intended, distinctive contributions to postcolonial literary studies:

The journal will publish work that investigates the multiple relationships between postcolonial, indigenous, and global discourses of cultural knowledge production. The journal also combines rigorously refereed academic articles with the publication of poetry and fiction from different traditions of postcolonial writing. As well, it pays particular critical attention to the ways in which the aesthetics of postcolonial texts inform their political projects and vice versa. Morevoer, as an open access e-journal, it uses the electronic medium to self-consciously and critically expand and intensify the critical exchange between postcolonial critics, theorists, and artists in the North and the South.

 

Section Policies

Editorial

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Articles

See the Focus and Scope statement in About the Journal for a description of the topics on which we seek critical essays and other forms of scholarship. We would welcome works on these themes from a variety of disciplines, such as literature, history, economics, philosophy, languages, as well as papers that combine disciplinary perspectives.

Editors
  • Michael Bucknor, University of the West Indies
  • Curdella Forbes, University of West Indies
  • Harry Garuba, University of Cape Town
  • Heike Harting, Université de Montréal
  • Michael Jacklin, University of Wollongong
  • Ranjini Mendis, Kwantlen University College, British Columbia
  • Philip Mingay, The King's University College
  • Chitra Sankaran, National University of Singapore
  • Rumina Sethi, Panjab University
  • John Willinsky, Stanford University, USA & University of British Columbia
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Book Reviews

We welcome book reviews of scholarly works on the themes outlined in the Scope and Focus statement of this journal, reviews of individual works of 800-1000 words, with essay reviews of a few books that run to 2,000-3,000 words. The book should be no more than a year or two of publication, unless a special claim is made for it as, for example, an overlooked classic. We invite publishers to send us review copies of books which we will list in our site as a way of inviting reviews. As well, we invite reviewers to write to publishers for review copies of books appropriate for this journal.

Review copies should be sent to:
Dr. Geetha Ganapathy-Dore
UFR de Droit et Sciences politiques
Universite de Paris 13
99, avenue jean Baptiste Clement
93340 Villetaneuse Cedex
Paris, France
or
Dr. Helene Strauss
Assistant Professor
Department of English and Cultural Studies
Chester New Hall 429
McMaster University
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L9

Editors
  • Geetha Ganapathy-Doré, University of Paris 13
  • Helene Strauss, McMaster University
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Poetry and Fiction

Postcolonial Text seeks to publish a range of creative works, in a variety of genres and forms, that will add to the journal's exploration of postcolonial and related themes.

Editors
  • Merlinda Bobis, University of Wollongong
  • Ira Raja, University of Delhi/ Latrobe University
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Commentary

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Introduction to Guest Issue: "Nollywood and West African Cinema"

Editors
  • Onookome Okome, University of Alberta
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Special Issue on West African Cinema

Editors
  • Onookome Okome, University of Alberta
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Film Review (Special Issue on East African Cinema)

Editors
  • Onookome Okome, University of Alberta
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Introduction

Editors
  • Eoin Flannery, Oxford Brookes University
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Interviews

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Editorial Team

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Cluster articles: Author Meets Critics Forum

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Peer Review Process

All articles submitted to Postcolonial Text are subjected to an anonymous peer review by two reviewers. In this process the identities of authors and reviewers are not revealed to each other. The reviewers' recommendations are taken into consideration (by the editor handling the submission) in arriving at publication and revision decisions. See Section Policies in About the Journal for policies pertaining to the different sections of the journal.

 

Publication Frequency

Postcolonial Text began by publishing two issues a year. It is now a quarterly journal.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides open access to all of it content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Such access is associated with increased readership and increased citation of an author's work. For more information on this approach, see the Public Knowledge Project, which has designed this system to improve the scholarly and public quality of research, and which freely distributes the journal system as well as other software to support the open access publishing of scholarly resources.

 


Postcolonial Text ISSN 1705-9100