'This issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing brings together a heterogeneous group of articles on Caribbean writing, cyberpunk fiction, Bengali science fiction, language use in Amitav Ghosh’s novels and the redemptive politics of recent Australian writing. It furthermore includes one article on African poetry and music and two pieces on Arab writing, a postcolonial reassessment of the Latin American literary tradition of the marvellous real and closes with an interview by Vanessa Guignery with one of postcolonial studies’ most canonical writers, Salman Rushdie.' (Editorial introduction)
Contents indexed selectively.
'The turn of the century has witnessed a proliferation of the publication of the so-called “sorry novels”, “fictions of reconciliation” and “saying sorry texts” in the Australian literary context. In contrast to the arguments which define these texts as plausible examples of “settler envy”, this article highlights their dissenting and reconciling power in Gail Jones’s Sorry by offering an in-depth analysis and discussion of the meaning and function of the intertextual allusions to Shakespeare’s Othello and the use of symbols in the novel.' (Introduction)
