An analysis of Roger Robinson’s A Portable Paradise Gavin Herbertson Robinson’s work has always tackled subject-matter and themes which many would consider controversial and has drawn in a diverse array of sourcesRead More…
Lyndsey Stonebridge, ‘The Times of Rights and Writing’, a talk given at the Oxford Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar on 4 May 2021.
Family Matters: A Review of Klara and the Sun Eileen Ying The first forty pages of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun take place entirely within the narrow enclosure of a storefront.Read More…
A video interview with Amit Chaudhuri about Literary Activism, recorded on 26 February 2021.
Excerpts from the mission statements for Literary Activism events.
In this e-mail interview with C. S. Bhagya, Monica Ali gets candid about the language games in her work, the women who populate her narratives, and what compels her to return to writing novels.
Close reading of Monica Ali’s Brick Lane C. S. Bhagya Brick Lane is a novel whose events span decades and wide geographical distances. The narrative focus shifts from Mymensingh District, East PakistanRead More…
Close reading of Inua Ellams’s ‘Fuck / Tupac’ from The Actual Chelsea Haith In this short essay we take a closer look at how Ellams’s verse integrates contemporary cultural references and largerRead More…
Essay extract from ‘Natives: Autobiography and Anti-Racism After Empire’ Dominic Davies For the historian of Black Britain, David Olusoga, Akala’s Natives is not “an easy book to categorise”: “It has been describedRead More…
A personal response to Afropean by a classical archaeologist Lucia Nixon, Wolfson College, Oxford As a classical archaeologist, I take a long view of ‘Europe’. In Afropean, Johny Pitts visits seven countries.Read More…