Topics covered include a postcolonial reading of African spirituality, sexuality, and “the Erotic” through Mbari art in Igboland, Nigeria; Audre Lorde’s experience with the Black-Indigenous relations in the Eurasian Borderlands; self-representation by female ex-combatants in Peru; militarization, postcoloniality, and the poetics of historical experience in Mahasweta Devi’s “Draupadi”; and trauma and its discontents through Louise Erdrich’s The Round House.

Contributors. Ashjan Ajour, Bright Alozie, Evelyn Saavedra Autry, Robyn Bourgeois, Ginetta E.B. Candelario, Kerri Clarke, Maree Clarke, Ana Del Conde, Jenny L. Davis, Basuli Deb, Fran Edmonds, Michelle M. Jacob, Nanya Jhingran, Candy Esther MartÍnez, Daniel McKay, Kai Orton, Tatsiana Shchurko, Sabra Thorner,  Winniebell Xinyu Zong