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“Ghostly revenants”: The soundscape of pain and memory in Afghan American fiction This article examines Jamil Jan Kochai’s novel, 99 Nights in Logar, and selected stories from his short story collection, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak, and argues that Kochai’s fiction indicates the...

My article “Ghostly revenants”: The soundscape of pain and memory in Afghan American fiction” is now published in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. If anyone’s interested, they can get a free online copy here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IXCNB...

Memory studies and postcolonial writing: Interstitial intersections and entanglements Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Here's Avishek Parui's introduction to a special issue on "Memory, Materiality, and Forgetting" in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing that contains my article on @Kochai’s fiction. I will post a link to the article soon but you can get a glimpse here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Spread the word! @natewolff.bsky.social and I have extended the deadline for submissions for our Arizona Quarterly special issue on the American novel at the turn of the 20th century. New date is Jan. 2nd.
azq.arizona.edu/call-papers-0

should we call this post x phase as the “Bluesky turn”?

Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about

1. How literature conceptualises and negotiates spaces of death
2. Whose memory matters? Why?

someone suggested “bleats”

It’s been two days since I moved here and it already feels like moving to a new and exciting place and meeting all the nice folks that I have always imagined to have talked to and listened to—so refreshing. I hope it stays this way.