Author Guidelines
Postcolonial Text invites authors to submit manuscripts that fall within the focus and scope of the journal, as set out in About the Journal. Manuscripts should be between 6,000 and 7,000 words in length. Scholarly articles book reviews, and interviews should adhere to the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing for literary submissions or the Chicago Manual of Style for historical and cultural articles. Additional advice on MLA and Chicago styles are to be found at St. Martin's Press and Duke University.
MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, 3rd Ed.
For those following the MLA style, this journal uses the list of works cited and parenthetical references (with examples below). Authors should also use, if needed, footnotes (rather than endnotes) for the discussion of points in the text.
Examples of Parenthetical Citation and Works Cited
For Deepika Bahri, "covert mercantile neo-colonialism, potent successor to modern colonialism, continues its virtually unchallenged march across the face of the earth, ensuring that the wretched will remain so" (59).
Coetzee's use of women narrators, Fiona Probyn believes, is "closely aligned to the poststructuralist configuration of the feminine as necessarily disruptive of narrative" (par. 1).
Fanon held that "what is often called the black soul is a white man's artifact" (Black Skin 14 Print).
Challenges to colonialism seldom "run straight away along the lines of nationalism" (Fanon, Wretched 119 Print).
Fanon set out the structural features of this debilitating colonialism:
Colonial domination.... is made possible by the negation of national reality, by new legal relations introduced by the occupying power, by the banishment of the natives and their customs to outlying districts by colonial society, by expropriation, and by the systematic enslaving of men and women. (Wretched 123)
Works Cited
Bahri, Deepika. "Once More with Feeling: What is Postcolonialism?"
Ariel 26.1
(1995): 51-82. Print.
"Cigarette Sales Fall 30% as California Tax Rises."
New York Times 14 Sept.
1999: A17. Print.
Fanon, Frantz.
Black Skin, White Masks. Trans. Charles Lam Markmann. New York:
Grove, 1967. Print.
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The Wretched of the Earth. Trans. Constance Farrington.
Harmondsworth: Pengiun, 1967. Print.
Korang, Kwaku Larbi, and Stephen Slemon. "Post-colonialism and Language." In
Writing and Africa. Ed. Mpalive-Hangson Msiska and Paul Hyland. London:
Longman, 1997. 246-263. Print.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African
Literature. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers, 1987. Print.
Probyn, Fiona. "J. M. Coetzee: Writing With/Out Authority."
Jouvert: A Journal of
Postcolonial Studies 7.1 (2002). 23 Mar. 2003. Web (and date downloaded)
<http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v7is1/probyn.htm>. Web (and date downloaded)
Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Ed.
Footnote Reference Examples
1. Prasenjit Duara, "Leftist Criticism and the Political Impasse: Response to Arif Dirlik's 'How the Grinch Hijacked Radicalism: Further Thoughts on the Postcolonial,'"
Postcolonial Studies, 4.1 (2001), 87.
2. Leslie Camhi, "Setting His Tale of Love Found in a City Long Lost,"
The New York Times, 28 January 2001, 11.
3. Pier Paolo Pasolini, "Appendix: Quips on the Cinema,"
Heretical Empiricism, ed. Louise K. Barnett, tr. Ben Lawton and Louise K. Barnett (Bloomington, 1988), pp. 231-32; hereafter cited in text as HE.
4. Fiona Probyn, “J. M. Coetzee: Writing with/out authority,�
Jouvert:
A Journal of Postcolonial Studies 7, no. 1 (2002),
http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v7is1/probyn.htm
(23 March 2003), Conclusion.
Additional Style Requirements for Postcolonial Text
1. Use only one space after periods, question marks, colons, etc.
2. Place footnote numbers at the end of the sentence, immediately after the period, with no space between the period and the number.
3. Set punctuation marks (. , ?) at the end of a quoted passage within the quotation marks:
"He fell."
Coordinating punctuation (; :) does not fall within "the quotation marks":
"He fell"; I heard those words again.
4. Use double quotations marks whenever placing text in "quotation marks," with single quotation marks used only when needed inside of double ones: "I heard you say, 'He fell.'"
5. In following MLA style, place the citation for indented quotations (roughly any quote five or more lines long) after the final punctuation, like this, with no quotation marks around the indented quote. (29)
6. With MLA, for quotations that are not indented, place the citation within the final punctuaton, “like this, with quotation marks around the quote� (29).
7. With MLA, use the subtitle Works Cited for the list of works that are cited.
