{"id":1526,"date":"2026-06-11T00:28:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irn-postcolonial-print-cultures.org\/?page_id=1526"},"modified":"2026-06-11T00:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:28:27","slug":"newsletter-12-february-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/irn-postcolonial-print-cultures.org\/index.php\/newsletter-12-february-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #12 – February 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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IRNPPC Events<\/span><\/h2>\n

BOOK LAUNCH<\/span>
\nJoin us on zoom<\/a><\/b>\u00a0for the upcoming book launch of<\/p>\n

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African Literature in Transition: Print Cultures and African Literature, 1860-1960<\/i><\/a>, edited by Karin Barber and Stephanie Newell at our<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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International Research Network on Postcolonial Print Cultures\u00a0(IRNPPC)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

seminar, hosted by Neelam Srivastava (Newcastle University) and Laetitia\u00a0Zecchini\u00a0(CNRS-UChicago). Participants include contributors: Anne Bang, James Brennan, Joel Cabrita, Jeremy Dell, Sara Marzagora,\u00a0Khwezi Mkhize,\u00a0Phoebe Musandu,\u00a0Maria Suriano.<\/p>\n

Date: Friday, 13th March 2026
\n<\/b>Time: 9AM Central Time | 10AM Eastern Time<\/b><\/p>\n

CONFERENCE<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The next\u00a0IRNPPC<\/a> conference\u00a0<\/b>will take place at the\u00a0University of Chicago <\/b>on November 5th and 6th, 2026<\/b>. This conference will be a follow-up to our workshop in Paris <\/a>that took place in September 2025, focusing on textual\/visual interaction in postcolonial print and mixed media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Events of IRNPPC Members<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/b>SEMINAR<\/span>
\n<\/b>Literatures of the Global South<\/b><\/p>\n

“Poetry and Independence: Debates in Verse in the Swahili-Language Press (Tanzania, 1960\u20131965)”
\nPierre Leroux (Nanterre University)<\/i><\/p>\n

Seminar led by Elara Bertho, C\u00e9line Gahungu, Ma\u00ebline Le Lay, and Tristan Leperlier.<\/p>\n

Date: March 5, 2026 | 2:00\u20134:00 p.m.<\/strong>
\nVenue: ENS-Ulm, IHMC Room, 45 rue d\u2019Ulm<\/strong><\/p>\n

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CONFERENCE & PANELS<\/span>
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The American Comparative Literature Association’s (ACLA) <\/b>Annual Meeting<\/b><\/p>\n

Dates: Feb 26 – March 1, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Several members of the IRNPPC network are hosting or participating in panels related to print culture, the global south, postcolonial literature, and more at this year’s ACLA meeting:<\/p>\n

1. The World in South Asian Literatures, organised by Zain Mian
\n2. Archiving Socialisms: Material and Intellectual Legacies, organised by Mar\u00eda Isabel Alfonso
\n3. Theorizing Translation in the Global South: Networks and Sites of World Literary Formations, organised by Razieh Araghi.<\/p>\n

For information on other exciting panels please go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Call for Applications<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/b>CALL FOR PAPERS
\n<\/span><\/b>Technologies of Belonging: The Periodical in South <\/b>Asian Literary and Cultural Histories<\/b><\/p>\n

Journal: <\/b>South Asian Review
\nAbstract Deadline:<\/b> 15 April 2026
\nManuscript Deadline:<\/b> 1 October 2026
\nEditors: <\/b>Supurna Dasgupta, Sunayani Bhattacharya<\/p>\n

Contributors are invited to explore the following themes, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n

\u25cf Periodical and \/ as literature (genre, form, experimentation, etc)
\n\u25cf Periodicals rooted specifically to a locale\/community\/group (eg. caste journals, dialect-specific magazines, chapbooks with limited print, community zines, etc)
\n\u25cf Networks of modernism (eg. little magazines, avant-garde aesthetics)
\n\u25cf Political periodicals (organizational publications, ideological positions, etc)
\n\u25cf Construction of literary taste and citizenship (eg. mainstream or middlebrow magazines)
\n\u25cf Desires and pleasures (gender, advertisements, consumption, pulp, games, etc)
\n\u25cf Print and other technologies (multimedial engagements, infrastructures, etc)
\n\u25cfDemocratizing voice and access (form and circulation, finances, materialities)
\n\u25cf Countering state-sponsored narratives (resistance, banning, and underground journals)
\n\u25cf Global world-making (translations, transregional news, letters etc)<\/p>\n

Find the concept note here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/b>CALL FOR PAPERS
\n<\/span><\/b>Social and Cultural Histories in African and African <\/b>Diaspora Print Networks<\/b><\/p>\n

Conference: African Studies Association of the UK, 2026<\/strong>
\nDeadline: 30 April, 2026<\/strong>
\nFind more details here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The stream welcomes presentations not only on main feature stories which highlight the significance of observing African history through the gaze of black print, but how methodologies are used to analyse content and print production. Presentations on all and any aspects of print: from the covers to the classified ads, from colour to cartoons are welcome. Any or all aspects ofmagazine production can be considered from design to marketing; theoretical perspectives from aesthetics (such as Roland Barthes), to material culture (such as Leah Price). Presentations can focus on magazines, zines or newsletters, from any country on the continent or the African diaspora inany language. Print material in other languages should be accompanied by a visual presentation with English sub-titles. Scholars are invited to examine these suggestions and bring forth their own in order to illuminate the dynamism of African social and cultural histories through print networks.<\/p>\n

Please contact Kadija Geroge<\/b> if you plan to submit an abstract\/panel to this stream kadijageorge@gmail.com<\/b><\/p>\n

Recent Publications<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"James, Leslie. The Moving Word: How the West African and <\/i>Caribbean Press Shaped Black Political Thought<\/i>.<\/a> Harvard University Press, 2025.<\/p>\n

In the 1930s and 1940s, amid intensifying anticolonial activism across the British Empire, dozens of new West African and Caribbean newspapers printed their first issues. With small staffs and shoestring budgets, these newspapers nonetheless became powerful vehicles for the expression of Black political thought. Drawing on papers from Trinidad, Jamaica, Ghana, and Nigeria, Leslie James shows how the press on both sides of the Atlantic nourished anticolonial and antiracist movements.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cThe Language Challenge: Modernisms in Multilingual South Asia,\u201d<\/a> Co-edited by Preetha Mani and Jennifer Dubrow. Modernism\/Modernity<\/i>. Volume 32, No. 3, September, 2025.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Journal of European Periodical Studies<\/a><\/i>, <\/i>Volume 10, Issue 2, 2025.<\/p>\n

This open issue brings together a transnational selection of articles spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tracing how periodicals shape value, borders, networks, and participation across languages, regions, and media cultures.<\/p>\n

\"\"Manzo, Kerry. Queer Contiguities of Nigerian Literature. African <\/i>Humanities and the Arts Series<\/i>.<\/a> Michigan State University Press, April 2026.<\/p>\n

Drawing on interdisciplinary research and archival materials\u2014including institutional records, personal letters, and ephemera\u2014the book presents a new framework for understanding Nigerian literature, one in which sexuality and gender containment through discourses of heteronormativity in colonial and postcolonial Nigeria are central to its problematics and poetics.<\/p>\n

\"\"Mukim, Mantra. “Fugitive Poem: Bharat Bhawan Archive, Bhopal Gas Tragedy, and World Poetry.”<\/a> English: Journal of <\/i>the English Association<\/i>, Volume 74, Issue 284, Spring 2025, Pages 60\u201377.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"\"Iqbal, Asif. \u201cDesh or Ummah: Bengali Muslim Literary Enigma in Anisuzzaman\u2019s Muslim-Manas O Bangla Sahitya, 1757\u20131918\u201d<\/a>. 2025. BRAC University Journal of Humanities and <\/i>Social Sciences<\/i>, Volume 12, December 2025.<\/p>\n

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Gentle reminder<\/b>: Please send all IRNPPC news that you would like to promote (concerning publications, jobs, conferences, archives, etc) to Shrutakirti Dutta, our intern and web administrator, at shrudutta@gmail.com<\/b>and to Laetitia Zecchini at laetitia.zecchini@cnrs.fr<\/b><\/p>\n

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