This new issue takes as its starting point Joy Harjo (Creek Muscogee)'s observation that "'reinventing' in the colonizer's tongue and turning those images around to mirror an image of the colonized to the colonizers as a process of decolonization indicates that something is happening, something is emerging and coming into focus that will politicize as well as transform literary expression" (Harjo et al. 1998, 22). Postcolonial and Indigenous authors often appropriate the Western Literary canon, both in terms of form, language, and cultural elements in order to foreground their epistemologies and histories. The list of postcolonial and indigenous rewritings is long and ever growing, ranging from rewritings of Western myths such as Homer's Odyssey (Njabulo Ndebele's The Cry of Winnie Mandela) and canonical texts such as Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (J. M. Coetzee's Foe), to reinventions of canonised literary genres such as speculative and science fiction (Indigenous Futurism, Afrofuturism, and Africanfuturism).

We are thus seeking contributions that explore and reflect on the ways in which postcolonial and Indigenous authors "reinvent the enemy's language" by appropriating Western literary traditions - whether in format or in content - in order to challenge Western mainstream perspectives, expose colonial legacies, and bring to the fore their ontologies and cultural practices.

Original contributions should be between 700 and 1,200 words and should be fully referenced using Harvard Referencing Style. Please also send a 100-word biographical statement. We are also looking for book reviews in relation to any books in the field of postcolonial studies which were published within the last 5 years. Reviews should be between 500 and 1,000 words and should be fully referenced using Harvard Referencing Style.

The deadline for submissions is 31st January 2025. Please submit your contribution via email to the PSA Newsletter editorial team: Francesca Mussi [email protected] and Jennifer Gray [email protected]