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30May/22
Mary Jean Chan and Theophilus Kwek

On Family and Flèche: Theophilus Kwek and Mary Jean Chan Read at Kellogg College

30 May 2022EssaysMary Jean Chan, Theophilus KwekErica Lombard

On Family and Flèche: Theophilus Kwek and Mary Jean Chan Read at Kellogg College Ann Ang 19 May 2022 – an appreciative audience was treated to a lively reading from poets TheophilusRead More…

04Apr/22
A photograph of Tice Cin and Caleb Azumah Nelson in conversation at Daunt Books

Intimacies: On Tice Cin’s Keeping the House and Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Open Water

4 April 2022EssaysCaleb Azumah Nelson, Tice CinErica Lombard

Intimacies: On Tice Cin’s Keeping the House and Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Open Water Eileen Ying Tice Cin and Caleb Azumah Nelson arrived for a reading at Oxford’s Daunt Books on a characteristicallyRead More…

08Feb/22
A photograph of bell hooks

Grieving, Loving: On bell hooks

8 February 2022Essaysbell hooksErica Lombard

Grieving, Loving: On bell hooks Eileen Ying Lover, thinker, dreamer; razor-edged critic and open-armed activist; radical, riotous Black feminist with a penchant for leaving a room fuller than it began – bellRead More…

01Feb/22

Close reading of Yousif M. Qasmiyeh’s Writing the Camp

1 February 2022Close readingYousif M. QasmiyehErica Lombard

Close reading of Yousif M. Qasmiyeh’s Writing the Camp Serena Alagappan Yousif Qasmiyeh shatters and reconstructs a traditional conception of time in order to understand how time enigmatically exists in the BaddawiRead More…

27Oct/21
C. J. Griffin - 'On Neoliberal Society: The Aesthetic of the Secret in the Fiction of Jackie Kay'

C. J. Griffin – ‘On Neoliberal Society: The Aesthetic of the Secret in the Fiction of Jackie Kay’

27 October 2021VideosJackie KayErica Lombard

C. J. Griffin – ‘On Neoliberal Society: The Aesthetic of the Secret in the Fiction of Jackie Kay’ ‘Jackie Kay: An International Conference’ was hosted online, 3 June 2021, and convened byRead More…

27Oct/21
Ana García-Soriano - 'Liminality and Intimacy in Jackie Kay’s Wish I Was Here (2006)'

Ana García-Soriano – ‘Liminality and Intimacy in Jackie Kay’s Wish I Was Here (2006)’

27 October 2021VideosJackie KayErica Lombard

Ana García-Soriano – ‘Liminality and Intimacy in Jackie Kay’s Wish I Was Here (2006)’ ‘Jackie Kay: An International Conference’ was hosted online, 3 June 2021, and convened by Dr Natasha Alden (AberystwythRead More…

27Oct/21
Nancy Gish - '"Opening Out": Jackie Kay’s Many Voices'

Nancy Gish – ‘“Opening Out”’: Jackie Kay’s Many Voices’

27 October 2021VideosJackie KayErica Lombard

Nancy Gish – ‘“Opening Out”: Jackie Kay’s Many Voices’ ‘Jackie Kay: An International Conference’ was hosted online, 3 June 2021, and convened by Dr Natasha Alden (Aberystwyth University) and Dr Fiona TolanRead More…

27Oct/21
Jackie Kay reads 'Darling'

Jackie Kay reads ‘Darling’

27 October 2021VideosJackie KayErica Lombard

Jackie Kay reads ‘Darling’ ‘Jackie Kay: An International Conference’ was hosted online, 3 June 2021, and convened by Dr Natasha Alden (Aberystwyth University) and Dr Fiona Tolan (Liverpool John Moores University). TheRead More…

26Oct/21
A photograph of Jackie Kay holding her collection Fiere

Jackie Kay: Identity, Secrecy, and Love

26 October 2021Close readingJackie KayErica Lombard

Jackie Kay: Identity, Secrecy, and Love C. J. Griffin SOMEBODY ELSE If I was not myself, I would be somebody else.But actually I am somebody else.I have been somebody else all myRead More…

19Oct/21
abdulrazak gurnah

Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature

19 October 2021EssaysAbdulrazak GurnahErica Lombard

Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature Laya SoleymanzadehPhD, English Literature, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Nobel laureate of 2021, was born in Zanzibar, on aRead More…

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Postcolonial Writers Make Worlds (Principal Investigator: Professor Elleke Boehmer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Dr Erica Lombard) is an initiative of the University of Oxford Faculty of English Language and Literature, supported by the John Fell Oxford University Press (OUP) Research Fund.

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