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Postcolonial Literatures and Arts is a journal created in 2023 and published by the Société des Etudes Postcoloniales (SEPC, the French society for anglophone postcolonial studies). It succeeds Commonwealth Essays and Studies. The journal publishes in English two issues per year devoted to English-speaking postcolonial literature and arts. The current editor-in-chief is Kerry-Jane Wallart.

Latest issue
4.1 | 2026
Abdulrazak Gurnah: A Reappraisal

Cédric Courtois and Mélanie Joseph-Vilain

Abdulrazak Gurnah: A Reappraisal. Introduction. [Full text]
Delphine Froment

Contextualising Paradise: East Africa on the Brink of the Twentieth Century [Full text]
Nina Berman and Rachel Muchira

Writing-back at the German and Kiswahili Archive: Hidden Transcripts and Critical Fabulations in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Novels Paradise and Afterlives [Full text]
Kerry-Jane Wallart

Slavery and Extractivism: Reading Paradise through the Prism of Decolonial Ecology [Full text]
Élodie Raimbault

Connecting with the Non-Human: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Postcolonial Poetics of Materiality in Paradise. [Full text]
Jaine Chemmachery

“Time cheats all of us like that:” Time as Writing Matter in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise [Full text]
Maëlle Jeanniard du Dot

The implac(e)ability of place in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea (2001) and Paradise (1994) [Full text]
Christine Lorre

Bodies in Contact: Corporeality, Mobility, and Change in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise (1994) [Full text]
Mélanie Joseph-Vilain

Storytelling and Performance: Interpreting Identities in Paradise (1994) [Full text]
Vanessa Guignery

“Laugh[ing] now before life knots you up:” the Poetics of Laughter in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise [Full text]
Cédric Courtois

“Yusuf sighed heavily, shamed by his failure and dishonour:” Poetics and Politics of Shame in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise (1994) and Theft (2025) [Full text]
Nathalie Carré

“Kurudi(sha) nyumbani:” Reflections on the Swahili Translation of Paradise [Full text]
Ida Hadjivayanis

“Why do we have so many uncles?”: Linguistic Transference and Translationality in Gurnah’s Peponi and Dhulma. [Full text]
Varia
- J. Coplen Rose
  
  Humour and Healing in Lara Foot Newton’s Reach [Full text]
- Morgane Flahault
  
  Self-Translating Gender, Sexuality and Race in Rosario Ferré’s “De tu Lado al Paraíso” [Full text]
Interviews
- Tsitsi Dangarembga and Raphaël Thierry
  
  “I like to fill gaps,” an Interview with Tsitsi Dangarembga [Full text]
- Ishak Berrebbah and Eman Quotah
  
  Cultural Crossroads, Transnational Narratives, and the Poetics of Displacement: Eman Quotah in Conversation with Ishak Berrebah [Full text]
Reviews
- Maëline Le Lay
  
  Simon Gikandi, and R. N. Sandberg, eds. Global Theatre Anthologies: Ancient, Indigenous and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora [Full text]
- Neela Cathelain
  
  Françoise Vergès. Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism [Full text]

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