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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…

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…

27Aug/21
The cover of Nikesh Shukla's memoir, Brown Baby

Close reading of Nikesh Shukla’s Brown Baby

27 August 2021Close readingNikesh ShuklaErica Lombard

Close reading of Nikesh Shukla’s Brown Baby Moneeka Thakur ‘The freezer is empty. There is nothing there. A bag of frozen peas, frosted over with age. There are two old clear plasticRead More…

05Aug/21
Diverse teenage school students sitting at desks in a classroom.

Keeping Count, Settling Scores: Diversity in British Education Today

5 August 2021EssaysErica Lombard

Keeping Count, Settling Scores: Diversity in British Education Today Eileen Ying This June, publishing colossus Penguin Books released a series of bleak findings on British literary curricula. Less than one percent ofRead More…

27May/21
The cover of Roger Robinson's A Portable Paradise

An analysis of Roger Robinson’s A Portable Paradise

27 May 2021Close readingRoger RobinsonErica Lombard

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…

03May/21
Orange cover image of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, Klara and the Sun

Family Matters: A Review of Klara and the Sun

3 May 2021EssaysKazuo IshiguroErica Lombard

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…

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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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