Last night at #GAPS #PostColonialStudies #conference Ugandan-British author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi read us excerpts of several stories of Ugandans in Britain - and made everyone very curious to read more of her unique, funny narrative voice!

#GAPS2026 #PostcolonialLiterature #EnglishLiterature

How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder by Nina McConigley is a powerful short story collection exploring identity, migration, and cultural conflict through subtle, thought-provoking postcolonial literary narratives.

#NinaMcConigley #PostcolonialLiterature #ShortStories #BookReview #DiasporaFiction #LiteraryFiction

https://i2notes.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/how-to-commit-a-postcolonial-murder-by-nina-mcconigley/

📣 New publication on Epi-Revel: the proceedings of the conference “Speech and Silence, Memory and Amnesia in Postcolonial Narrative,” organized in 2023 by the Transdisciplinary Center for the Epistemology of Literature and the Performing Arts (CTELA).

Ten contributions addressing questions such as speech in relation to silence, memory in its connection to forgetting, and the complex relationship between memory and History, particularly in contexts of displacement.

It discusses postcolonial narrative, the captivity novel, and works by numerous authors including Igiaba Scego, Leïla Sebbar, David Chariandy, Édouard Glissant, Assia Djebar, Rachid Mokhtari...

Read it for free here:

https://epi-revel.univ-cotedazur.fr/collections/show/2034

#openaccess #openScience #diamondOA #postcolonialliterature #postcolonialnarrative #memory #migration #identity

Listening to #WideSargassoSea by #JeanRhys.

So well done.

And I'm cooked after 10 munutes.
So v e r y despair inducing for me.

(Written 1966 as a prequel to #JaneAyre - the back story of the mad woman in the attic. Small liberties taken with actual historical chronology.)

Classified as #PostColonialLiterature.
And I see just about every human on the planet is living a post-colonial life.

Yet the Xia dynasty, the Greeks, Romans, etc have had postcolonialism around for millenia.

Rediscovering Heritage & Emotion Through Storytelling : A Deep Dive into Lispeth of Kotgarh by Author Hiemannk

#LispethOfKotgarh #Hiemannk #RediscoveringHeritage #PostcolonialLiterature #StorytellingMagic #LiteraryReimagination #HistoricalFiction #KiplingReimagined #TragicLoveStory #ColonialIndia #ThematicExploration #IdentityAndCulture #CulturalClashes #WomenInLiterature #TraditionalVsContemporary #StageToPage #AuthorInsights #LiteraryVoices #AmazonReads

https://tycoonworld.in/rediscovering-heritage-emotion-through-storytelling-a-deep-dive-into-lispeth-of-kotgarh-by-author-hiemannk/