Conventional debates on the figure of the migrant – in its myriad iterations as the displaced, diasporic subject, exile, refugee – have tended to focus on the process of the movement itself, the political and…

L’urbanisation spectaculaire de l’Inde depuis les années 1990 se caractérise, entre autres, par la multiplication des quartiers informels (ou slums), symptômes des contradictions du développement économique du pays, et, plus largement, de la planète (si l'on…

Memories of the Future: Postcolonial Climate-Fiction Postcolonial societies are generally, though not exclusively, marked by the "environmentalism of the poor" (Martínez-Alier, J. 2002). While such historical struggles and conflicts around the unequal and uneven appropriation…

The connection between Vietnam and Pondicherry that flourished from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century is as yet completely unremarked upon within postcolonial studies and memory studies. During this period, people from French India settled in Vietnam…

This paper focuses on the figure of the Palestinian rebel in three texts published since the Second Intifada (2000-2005). The Intifada highlighted to Palestinians that statehood had not only been made more difficult to achieve…

Following 1848 French the abolition of slavery more than 42,000 Indian indentured were brought to Guadeloupe as plantation labour. Till recently, the island had neglected memorializing its Indian heritage and there has not been any…

John McLeod (Leeds University) : "Writing Transcultural Adoption: Assimilation or Antagonism?"