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Print Culture in Southern Africa (Edited by Caroline Davis, Archie Dick, Elizabeth le Roux, Dennis Walder came out with Routledge) is concerned with the institutions and processes informing textual production, circulation and consumption in the region, over a broad historical period from the late 18th century to the present day. Available from May 2021.

Alex Tickell’s special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Vol 57 Issue 2) on ‘Han Suyin: Literature, Politics and Translation’ co-edited with Feng Cui and Luke Kang Kwong Kapathy of NTU Singapore was published in March 2021.

In this book, leading scholars working on urban South Asia chart new forms of literature about contemporary Delhi. Incorporating original contributions by Delhi-based commentators and covering significant new themes and genres, it updates current critical understanding of how contemporary literature has registered the momentous economic and social forces reshaping India’s major cities.

David Johnson's monograph Dreaming of Freedom in South Africa: Literature between Critique and Utopia came out in December 2019 with Edinburgh University Press. Focusing on well-known and obscure literary texts from the 1880s to the 1970s, as well as the many manifestos and programmes setting out visions of the future, Johnson's book charts the dreams of freedom of five major traditions of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid resistance: the African National Congress, the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union, the Communist Party of South Africa, the Non-European Unity

Convened as an online conference on 9th and 10th July 2020, this event was a collaboration between the Postcolonial and Global Literaures Research Group and the Ferguson Centre and involved postgradute researchers and faculty members from English and History presenting current research on aspects of Empire and Decolonisation.

The Keynote speaker was Dr Matt Whittle, University of Kent, who spoke on 'Decolonisation and the Aesthetics of Disorder'