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Bridging the Cultural Divide: A Study of The Cartography of Love in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Oleander Girl
No full textOleander Girl is a skilfully crafted novel in which the author, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni pens a tale that puts forth manifold expressions of love and loss against a wide geographical canvas. The book negotiates love and relationships that crisscross continents, generations, and cultures to encapsulate the personal and emotional metamorphosis of its protagonists. The beauty and venomousness of the Oleander plant symbolizes the different hues and nuances of love deftly examined in the book’s various relationships. As Korobi tell the readers her gripping story and recounts her protected and traditional upbringing, the mystery and silence about her parents, it becomes clear that there is a family secret hidden deep beneath the surface which explodes on her grandfather’s death. Her grandmother, Sarojini, admits how she and her husband Bimal had conspired to hide the news of her father being alive from Korobi all her life. This sets her off on an expedition to find him amidst all the expectations of family and society, and it subsequently changes her life forever. Consequently, she finds herself in a space filled with confusion and must either opt for a life in India with Rajat or the new found freedom in America and an opportunity to be close to her father. Oleander Girl is a multilayered story with parallel plots to connect the dots between relationships, differing cultures, and identity concerns. 
A Relational Ethics of Immigration: Hospitality and Hostile Environments by Dan Bulley
No full textReview of: A Relational Ethics of Immigration: Hospitality and Hostile Environments by Dan Bulley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. (193 pages
Civil Society as Arms Producer: Oxymoron or Reality? Ukraine’s Drone Production in Response to the Russian Invasion
No full textThis article explores how Ukraine’s civil society has taken on direct security functions during Russia’s full-scale invasion, with a particular focus on the production of weaponized drone technologies. Drawing on and grounded in the “everyday International Relations (IR)” framework, the article assembles a novel database of both for-profit and nonprofit drone manufacturers operating in Ukraine, while applying social-network analysis to trace their patterns of collaboration. The article asks why civilian actors assumed a role usually monopolized by the defense industry and how their micropolitical practices reshape Ukraine’s macro-level war efforts. The results reveal a hybridized field in which civic activists, start-ups, and established firms converge, consequently blurring the conventional boundary between market activity and grassroots activist mobilization in the pursuit of national defense imperatives. By illuminating how market logics and activist practices intertwine under conditions of existential threat, the study challenges the standard definition of civil society as a realm separate from the state, family, and market, thereby advancing scholarship on whole-of-society resilience during wartime exemplified by the production of weaponized drones
Racial Conscription and Its Limits: Antinomies of Race in Teju Cole’s Novels
No full textThis essay argues that relations between race, blackness, and class inTeju Cole’s novels Open City (2011) and Tremor (2023) are mobilized by anantinomy in the global production of raciality between the progressivism of racial inclusivity narratives and the reality of neocolonial expropriation in the world’s largely non-white postcolonial countries. I argue that the narrators of these novels construct race, what appears as stable difference, in opposition to blackness, the constitutive aporia that ratifies the humanity of Western Man. By pacifying blackness through race, the narrators recuperate racial difference in contradistinction to blackness’s radical alterity to the human. Race in this contained form comes into crisis when confronted with capital, revealing race’s complicity in reproducing capitalist relations. Therefore, the racial antinomy is a contradiction produced andmobilized by capital as a form of appearance that obfuscates the violence engendered by the expansion of the capitalist world-systeminto the global periphery
Editor's Note
No full textEditor's note to volume 13, number 1 (Spring 2025) of the Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies.
Editor's Note
No full textEditor's note to volume 12, issue 2 (Fall 2024) of the Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies
Lachenal, Guillaume. The Doctor Who Would Be King
No full textReview of: Lachenal, Guillaume. The Doctor Who Would Be King. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022
Rosenthal, Jill. From Migrants to Refugees: The Politics of Aid along the Tanzania–Rwanda Border
No full textReview of: Rosenthal, Jill. From Migrants to Refugees: The Politics of Aid along the Tanzania-Rwanda Border. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023