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  • Elleke Boehmer, FRSL, FRHistS (born 1961) is Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford, and a Professorial Governing Body Fellow.
  • British literary critic.
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    Elleke Boehmer's work on the crucial intersections between independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical in the field. 'Stories of women' combines her keynote essays on the mother figure and the postcolonial nation, with incisive new work on male autobiography, 'daughter' writers, the colonial body, the trauma of the post-colony, and the nation in a transnational context. Focusing on Africa as well as South Asia, and sexuality as well as gender, Boehmer offers fine close readings of writers ranging from Achebe, Okri and Mandela to Arundhati Roy and Yvonne Vera, shaping these into a critical engagement with theorists of the nation like Fredric Jameson and Partha Chatterjee. This new paperback edition will be of interest to readers and researchers of postcolonial, international and women's writing; of nation theory, colonial history and historiography; of Indian, African, migrant and diasporic literatures, and is likely to prove a landmark study in the f

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    INTERVIEW WITH ELLEKE BOEHMER!

    It’s my pleasure today to welcome Elleke Boehmer to my blog. She is an acclaimed author, Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford and an expert in postcolonial literature. Her latest novel, The Shouting in the Dark, is an intense, moving and honest portrayal of growing up in apartheid era South Africa.

    [1] You write so well from the child’s point of view:
    powerful and visceral prose. How easy was it to enter that heady world of the
    childhood mind?

    Thank you! Probably
    the first thing to say in response to this question is that we all of us I
    think still carry our childhood mind somewhere in our memory.  Even though our child’s point of view may
    have been overlaid by years of grownup experience, we remember how it was to be
    a child and can get back there, to some degree, if we are able to concentrate
    really hard, especially when we’re among familiar things, including images like
    photos.  But, having said that, it

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    Elleke Boehmer

    British novelist and literary critic (born 1961)

    Elleke Boehmer, FRSL, FRHistS (born 1961) is Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford, and a Professorial Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College. She is an acclaimed novelist and a founding figure in the field of Postcolonial Studies, internationally recognised for her research in colonial and postcolonial literature, history and theory.[1] Her main areas of interest include the literature of empire and resistance to empire; sub-Saharan African and South Asian literatures; modernism; migration and diaspora; feminism, masculinity, and identity; nationalism; terrorism; J. M. Coetzee, Katherine Mansfield, and Nelson Mandela; and life writing.

    With her fiction, Boehmer has established an international reputation as a commentator on the impacts and aftereffects of colonial history, in particular in post-apartheid South Africa and postcolonial Britain.

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