“What is going on in Germany?” asked Natalie Zemon Davis after Munich suspended the acclaimed play Vögel ( Birds ) by Wajdi Mouawad November 2022. Davis, a renowned historian, had been deeply involved play's conception and production only to see it pulled for alleged antisemitism Holocaust relativization. 1 This was not an isolated example. 2

This paper questions the extent to which current critical engagements with postcolonial realities may exhibit an exoticising tendency they simultaneously decry as colonialism’s orientalist reflex. Contemporary instances of the exoticization of the “other”, however, are not necessarily the result of a practice of cultural translation that becomes ‘the superimposition of a dominant way of seeing,...

Victoria Cook, in "Exploring Transnational Identities in Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost," addresses issues of identity raised in the narrative of Michael Ondaatje's novel Anil's Ghost. Cook's paper is a close analysis of Ondaatje's novel, paying particular attention to the way in which Ondaatje examines identity as both a "construct" and a "process." The approach used is one that draws on postcolonial...