Editorial: Covid’s metamorphoses

Chambers, Claire; Gilmour, Rachael

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“…Our present pandemic, similarly, is encouraging micromanagement, corruption, and inequalities to proliferate. COVID-19 is reversing women's hard-won rights because of the types of service work, caring responsibilities, and emotional labour women tend to shoulder (Chambers and Gilmour 2020;Preskey, Gallagher, and Hall 2021). Fitting its dystopian genre, the novel warns that unless we act soon, the pandemic's afterlife will be post-apocalyptic.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

3 Infection rebellion in Bina Shah's Before She Sleeps

Chambers,

Lowden

2024

Fractured Narratives and Pandemic Identities

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3 Infection rebellion in Bina Shah's Before She Sleeps

Chambers,

Lowden

2024

Fractured Narratives and Pandemic Identities

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“…These are representative, in many ways, of strands of critical concern throughout these ten years in JCL , and of the journal’s commitment to publish critical and theoretical work that considers how literature operates at the multiple and dispersed frontiers of empire, and on the fault lines of racial and gendered power. These are the lines of connection we tried to trace, too, in initiatives such as the 2018 online special issue on refugees, migrants, and border security, which we published in response to what is often misleadingly termed the “migrant crisis”, drawing together articles from across the preceding decade in the journal to ask “what literary texts have to tell us, and what kinds of engagements they invite, in confronting these escalating concerns of the current moment” (Chambers and Gilmour, 2018b). The journal’s special issues, including digital-only curations, have played a pivotal role in exploring its key questions about the complexities of empire’s frontiers as represented in literary texts.…”

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The evolution of Commonwealth, postcolonial, and decolonial scholarship: Tracing the impact of field transformation on the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and vice versa

Chambers,

Gilmour

2024

Literature, Critique, and Empire Today

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This article explores the title change from the Journal of Commonwealth Literature ( JCL) to Literature, Critique, and Empire Today using a tripartite structure. We are the journal’s most recent ex-editors, and so the article is the culmination of about 15 years of thinking on these and related matters. In the essay’s first part, we interrogate the limitations of the term “Commonwealth” across the axes of global geopolitics as well as literature, in order to draw out some common threads within and beyond postcolonial studies. The second section thinks through the journal’s role in shaping postcolonial studies over time. Changes have been wrought in response to literary-critical and political concerns, as well as amid the self-transformation the journal has undergone over the past decade so as to open itself up to more diverse perspectives. Finally, we analyse the likely impact of the journal’s altered title for both registering and challenging understandings in its field. We hope that the article constitutes a thought-provoking exploration of the journal’s present and future avenues, and the knock-on effects this will have for postcolonial, world, and decolonial literary studies more broadly.

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“…These diverse chronotopes intersect and complicate the legacies of time-space colonisations, exposing and exacerbating historical divides and injustices and producing local mutations in their adaptation to national politics in Johnson’s Britain, Modi’s India, Morrison’s Australia, Putin’s Russia or Bolsonaro’s Brazil. Drawing on Judith Butler’s Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (2004) and In Frames of War (2009) in their respective editorials for Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Journal of Postcolonial Writing , Chambers and Gilmour (2020) and Wilson et al (2020) discuss the environmental, social, economic and academic configurations of precariousness in the times of Covid. Precariousness – “the inherent state of vulnerability and dependence resulting from … inequality, whereby subjects might be exposed to disease, violence, poverty, and civil war” (Wilson et al 2020: 440) – affects biodiversity and ecosystem stability; refugees and asylum seekers; the poor; women; black, Asian and Muslim communities in the west; people with disabilities; gig-economy labourers on zero-hours contracts and early-career researchers, among many others.…”

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Annual Bibliography of Commonwealth Literature 2019

Parashkevova¹

2020

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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This year, the retrospective glance of Journal of Commonwealth Literature's Bibliographic Issue, from the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic to pre-pandemic creative and critical publications, opens up multiple questions of time and temporality. We look back at 2019 with the benefit of hindsight, anticipating literary responses to this crisis, dissociating ourselves from it so as to examine pre-Covid works in their own right, seeing it already prefigured in 2019 publications and events and negotiating the demands of writing and of access to published works within the polyphony of its multiple overlapping chronotopes, Bakhtinian time-spaces embodying historical, biographical and social contradictions, inequalities and struggles (Bakhtin 1975). We live in chronotopes of Covid's origins and trajectories; its symptomaticity, development and complications; its nostalgias and neologisms; the recursive postponements it necessitates; its uneven spread, divisions and precariats; its global figurations and the planetary solidarities emerging in response; the stasis, escapism, isolation, trauma, sacrifice and mourning it has brought about alongside Bacchic rule-breaking and excess alongside the policing of the self, of the other and of the boundaries between them; its socially distant deaths and virtual synchronicities; its fragmentation into national temporalities; its impetus to international competitiveness; its dystopias, its conspiracy theories and the politically inflected allegories of the fight against it; the cyclicity of its waves; the curves and peaks of its rates of infection and the race towards the fulfilment of a utopian post-Covid future, ranging from a return to pre-Covid times to a progression to a better, lessons-learned condition. These diverse chronotopes intersect and complicate the legacies of time-space colonisations, exposing and exacerbating historical divides and injustices and producing local mutations in their adaptation to national politics in Johnson'

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Editorial: Covid’s metamorphoses

Cited by 4 publications

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3 Infection rebellion in Bina Shah's Before She Sleeps

3 Infection rebellion in Bina Shah's Before She Sleeps

The evolution of Commonwealth, postcolonial, and decolonial scholarship: Tracing the impact of field transformation on the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and vice versa

Annual Bibliography of Commonwealth Literature 2019

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