Just FYI you can order the brilliant Julia Obert's Irish Joy from @livunipress.bsky.social for 50% off with code 27Summer www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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Julia C. Obert is Professor of English at the University of Wyoming. She is author of The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Postcolonial Overtures (Syracuse University Press, 2015).

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Edited by the always witty Jeremy De Chavez: Archipelagothic: Studies in the Philippine Gothic | Anthem Press share.google/NVPpyiibXiMh...

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Happy Pub Day to We the Platform and many many thanks to my editor Philip and the Columbia UP team for supporting the book!

Philip Leventhal@philipleventhal.bsky.social · last mo.

"[A] sharp and welcome rebuttal to the fatalistic 'end of literature' narrative. WE THE PLATFORM maps the complex convergence of legacy publishing and platform capitalism" - Rita Raley WE THE PLATFORM by Aarthi Vadde: bit.ly/44g6ZeG #LiteratureNow @aarthivadde.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Gorgeous cover art by a'driane nieves: www.addyeb.com

Duke University Press@dukepress.bsky.social · last mo.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Inside the Body of Black Feminism" by @samanthapinto.bsky.social, which connects historical studies of medical racism with Black feminist theories of the body to reimagine the possibilities for political subjectivity across race, gender, and culture. buff.ly/3Lq1rc8

I loved talking with @ryantopper.bsky.social about our recent books. Interested in the structures and possibilities that literature builds? In literary criticism and critical theory? In African studies, postcolonial anglophone literature, psychoanalysis, or the law? We have all this and more!

@diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · last mo.

New on the Diacritics blog: "Postcolonial Literature’s Generative Capacities: A Conversation with Rose Casey and Ryan Topper" about their recent monographs, "Aesthetic Impropriety" & "Animist Poetics." Read here: www.diacriticsjournal.com/postcolonial...

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Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In this edition of Ideas, David R. Samson explores the paradox at the heart of human sleep: how a fundamentally vulnerable state became sustainable not through individual adaptation, but through social innovation. press.princeton.edu/ideas/the-ni...

Mardi, rendez-vous à Paris à MansA pour une discussion bouillante autour d’Ama Ata Aidoo, avec les traducteurices Patricia Houéfa Grange et @guillaumecingal.bsky.social, la chercheuse Mame-Fatou Niang et à la modération, Sacha Shiro de Ròt-Bò-Krik. Venez en nombre ! (Lien de réserva en commentaire)

Wrote about psychoanalysis, literature, and Coetzee's commitment to "go further" doi.org/10.3390/h150...

A "beautifully lucid and deeply searching" book www.bloomsbury.com/au/henry-jam...

A "beautifully lucid and deeply searching" book www.bloomsbury.com/au/henry-jam...

Nicole Rizzuto's Arresting Ecologies! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

It's official! Out this November. I've loved working with @uminnpress.bsky.social and @lpennywark.bsky.social a second time. www.upress.umn.edu/978151792214...

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Congratulations to Ainehi Edoro, author of the just-published FOREST IMAGINARIES: HOW AFRICAN NOVELS THINK, on being named a keynote thinker for the 2026 African Literature Association conference. bit.ly/4qQSN5y @brittlepaper.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Today is pub day! My book, Reading Better States, is officially out from @fordhampress.bsky.social! fordhampress.com/reading-bett... Use code RBS25 for 25% off and free shipping! #postcolonialstates #concreteutopias #utopianmethod #Bloch #environmentalharm #environmentalfuturity #climatechange

Cover drop! Extremely excited to have this incredible sculpture, Marisol’s Love (1962), on the cover of Relatability, out later this year press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Relatability

An engaging account of how the New York School poets used art to imagine their queerness as something that might be shared with other people.How did Frank O’Hara and other New York School poets—a smal...

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y'all !!!! I love that the blurbs are basically like, "listen, she is never not telling you about some bleak shit" 😍❤️‍🔥 (thank you @aarthivadde.bsky.social and @markmcgurl.bsky.social)

Content Machines: Reading and Writing in the Platform Era

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We the Platform is available for preorder with the discount code CUP20 if you order directly from the press! cup.columbia.edu/book/we-the-... A thread on the argument below:

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Web 2.0 gave us the online world as we know it today. Popularized in 2004, it redefined the internet as social, a “platform” for self-expression and data... | CUP

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Delighted that the paperback edition of "African Literature and US Empire" is now available for preorder from @edinburghup.bsky.social ! On the maddening enforced optimism of educational and financial institutions, on dreams and solidarity. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-african...

African Literature and US Empire

African Literature and US Empire

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What a line-up! An @antipodeonline.bsky.social first: a "longread" of 68 pages! Expect a splendid New Year's gift, when the issue goes to print early Jan! @udadisi.bsky.social @samar42.bsky.social @demonicgrounds.bsky.social #geosky @darajapress.bsky.social

Delighted that the paperback edition of "African Literature and US Empire" is now available for preorder from @edinburghup.bsky.social ! On the maddening enforced optimism of educational and financial institutions, on dreams and solidarity. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-african...

African Literature and US Empire

African Literature and US Empire

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The book releases on Jan 1st. Preorder here: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place - Nebraska Press

In recent decades authors from across the world have adopted and adapted the bildungsroman literary genre to reflect on coming of age in postcolonial spaces ...

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Odedina, Ladder of Dreams

Brilliant work by Christine Okoth on migrant remittances in post-independence African fiction. Open access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Zoë Wicomb's passing is a monumental loss. She was one of the very best writers working today: acknowledged yet still underrated on the world stage. Her writing has an acuity, power, wit, grace, and intellect that is most rare. She was brilliant. johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2025/10/14/z...

Zoë Wicomb, 1948—2025, RIP

Zoë Wicomb, the pioneering South African author and academic, has died in her home of Glasgow, Scotland. She was 77 years old. Born in the then Cape Province, Wicomb was raised in Namaqualand, then at...

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🚨🚨🚨 Back with another fantastic @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode! I chat with the brilliant @rosecasey.bsky.social about her book Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style (Fordham UP, 2025). Please listen in & check out this fantastic book newbooksnetwork.com/aesthetic-im...

Margarita Vaysman & I have been working on this for the past 5 (!) years, but it's finally done- the online version is up and the hardcover should be out later this month! Welcome to the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, feat. 41 chapters and beautiful cover art: academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 🎉

The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms

Abstract. Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across different media, from early

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Full online publication of the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms out now! I have a chapter on how The Global African Novel theorizes realism and the violence of global capitalism: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

The Global African Novel

AbstractThe global African novel, as a genre, describes realist fictions that map contemporary migrations of the African diaspora in the late twentieth and

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