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Volumes will concentrate on writers and writing originating in previously (or presently) colonized areas, and will include material from non-anglophone as well as anglophone colonies and literatures. Series editors: Donna Landry and Caroline Rooney.  \n1. Magical Realism in West African Fiction: Seeing with a Third Eye by Brenda Cooper  \n2. The Postcolonial Jane Austen edited by You-Me Park and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan  \n3. Contemporary Caribbean Women’s Poetry: Making Style by Denisede Caires Narain  \n4. African Literature, Animism and Politics by Caroline Rooney  \n5. Caribbean–English Passages: Intertextuality in a Postcolonial Tradition by Tobias Döring  \n6. Islands in History and Representation edited by Rod Edmond and Vanessa Smith  \n7. Civility and Empire: Literature and Culture in British India, 1822–1922 by Anindyo Roy  \n8. Women Writing the West Indies, 1804–1939: ‘A Hot Place, Belonging To Us’ by Evelyn O’Callaghan  \n9. Postcolonial Pacific Writing: Representations ofthe body by Michelle Keown  \n10. Writing Woman, Writing Place: Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction by Sue Kossew  \n11. Literary Radicalism in India: Gender, Nation and the Transition to Independence by Priyamvada Gopal  \n12. Postcolonial Conrad: Paradoxes of Empire by Terry Collits  \n13. American Pacificism: Oceania in the U.S. Imagination by Paul Lyons  \n14. Decolonizing Culture in the Pacific: Reading History and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction by Susan  \nY. Najita  \n15. Writing Sri Lanka: Literature, Resistance and the Politics of Place by Minoli Salgado  \n16. Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary by Vijay Mishra  \n17. Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel: National and Cosmopolitan Narratives in English by Neelam Srivastava  \n18. English Writing and India, 1600–1920: Colonizing Aesthetics by Pramod K. Nayar  \n19. Decolonising Gender: Literature, Enlightenment and the Feminine Real by Caroline Rooney  \n20. Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography by David Huddart  \n21. Contemporary Arab Women Writers by Anastasia Valassopoulos  \n22. Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton: Power Play of Empire by Ben Grant  \n23. Transnationalism in Southern African Literature: Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality of Print Culture by Stefan Helgesson  \n24. Land and Nationalism in Fictions from Southern Africa by James Graham  \n25. Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization: Exploiting Eden by Sharae Deckard  \n26. The Idea of the Antipodes: Place, People, and Voices by Matthew Boyd Goldie  \n27. Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives: Violence and Violation edited by Sorcha Gunne and Zoë Brigley Thompson  \n28. Locating Transnational Ideals edited by Walter Goebel and Saskia Schabio  \n29. Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature: Remitting the Text by Kezia Page  \n30. Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present by S. Salih  \n31. 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G. Sebald\n## 6 Remembering ‘Bitter Histories’: From Achebe to Adichie\n## 7 Nostalgia for the Present: J. G. Ballard’s Empire of the Sun\n## 8 Endnote\n## Notes\n## Bibliography\n## Index","[{\"question\":\"What is the central theme of Postcolonial Nostalgias?\",\"answer\":\"The book examines how memory is represented in literary and related cultural forms, especially the nostalgic aspect of postcolonial experience.\"},{\"question\":\"Which topics and authors does the book address?\",\"answer\":\"It discusses recollections of postcolonial identity and homeland, including chapters engaging writers such as Naipaul, Doris Lessing, W. G. Sebald, Achebe, Adichie, and J. G. 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