Parution du numéro 43.2 (2021) de la revue Commonwealth Essays and Studies, intitulé “In Other Worlds: Imagining What Comes Next”

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43.2 | 2021
In Other Worlds

Imagining What Comes Next

Edited by  Christine Lorre-Johnston and Fiona McCann

When the COVID pandemic was officially announced in France in March 2020 and the country went into lockdown, a lot changed almost overnight in unprecedented ways. Among more dramatic measures, academic conferences were cancelled or postponed, and editorial schedules were consequently disrupted. After the initial shock, we decided to work on a journal issue that would help us think about the crisis in terms of the questions with which we usually deal. “In Other Worlds: Imagining What Comes Next” reflects on the ways in which postcolonial literature imaginatively addresses situations of crisis originating in pandemics and other ecological evolutions, and the political schemes that accompany them. The five essays (and related writer interview) analyse and illustrate how writers have developed creatively the genres of dystopia, speculative fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, and climate fiction to apprehend what is at stake in these crises, in narratives that confront readers with human vulnerability but also point at new forms of empowerment that are sources of hope.

• Christine Lorre-Johnston and Fiona McCannIn Other Worlds: Imagining What Comes Next. Introduction [Full text] 
• Kathie Birat“Liminal Figures of Futurity”: Mohale Mashigo’s Use of Speculative Fiction in Intruders [Full text] 
• Kathie Birat and Mohale MashigoMohale Mashigo interviewed by Kathie Birat [Full text] 30 October 2020
• Mélanie Joseph-VilainTransatlantic Post-Apocalyptic Fiction: Frank Owen’s South (2016) and North (2018) and Lauren Beukes’s Afterland (2020) [Full text] 
• Claire WrobelNegotiating Dataveillance in the Near Future: Margaret Atwood’s Dystopias [Full text] 
• Laura SingeotThe Swamp and Desert Tropes in Post-Apocalyptic Australian Indigenous Fiction: The Swan Book (2013) by Alexis Wright and Terra Nullius (2018) by Claire Coleman [Full text] 
• Cédric Courtois“Into the mutation”: Osahon Ize-Iyamu’s “More Sea than Tar” (2019) as Climate Fiction [Full text] 
• Varia
  • Jean-François VernayThe Counter-Cultural Art of Dealing with Dirt: The Balmain Group’s Sexual Revolution in Print [Full text] 
  • Cielo G. Festino and Liliam Cristina MarinsLiterature, Resistance, and Visibility: “Draupadi,” by Mahasweta Devi, in Translation [Full text] 
  • Ishak Berrebbah and Laila Halaby“Neither here nor there”: A Conversation with Laila Halaby [Full text] 2 December 2020
• Reviews
  • Bruce HardingPaul Sharrad, Thomas Keneally and the Literary Machine [Full text] 
  • Pauline Amy de la BretèqueJuliana Lopoukhine, Frédéric Regard, and Kerry-Jane Wallart, eds., Transnational Jean Rhys. Lines of Transmission, Lines of Flight [Full text]
  • Estelle Castro-Koshy

• Bhawana JainJaydip Sarkar and Rupayan Mukherjee, eds. Partition Literature and Cinema: A Critical Introduction [Full text] 
• Nishit KumarFlair Donglaishi and Gareth Guangming Tan, eds., World Literature in Motion: Institution, Recognition, Location [Full text]