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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…

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…

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…

06Feb/21
The cover of Monica Ali's Brick Lane

Close reading of Monica Ali’s Brick Lane

6 February 2021Close readingMonica AliErica Lombard

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…

05Jan/21
Cover of Inua Ellams's The Actual

Close reading of Inua Ellams’s ‘Fuck / Tupac’ from The Actual

5 January 2021Close readingInua EllamsErica Lombard

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…

28Sep/20
Joseph Bird Head Son scaled

A close-reading of Anthony Joseph’s ‘Bosch’s Vision’ from Bird Head Son (2009)

28 September 2020Close reading, EssaysAnthony JosephErica Lombard

A close-reading of Anthony Joseph’s ‘Bosch’s Vision’ from Bird Head Son (2009) Christopher J. Griffin The focus of this commentary is on the first poem of Anthony Joseph’s third poetry collection, BirdRead More…

28Aug/20
antrobus the perseverance

Reflections on Raymond Antrobus’s ‘I Want the Confidence of’

28 August 2020Close reading, EssaysRaymond AntrobusErica Lombard

Reflections on Raymond Antrobus’s ‘I Want the Confidence of’ Daniele Nunziata This commentary section features Raymond Antrobus’ poem ‘I Want the Confidence of’ from his collection The Perseverance. The poem explores theRead More…

19Jul/19
dawes progeny of air

Close reading of Kwame Dawes’s ‘The Third Former’s Burden’ from Progeny of Air, by William Ghosh

19 July 2019Close reading, EssaysKwame DawesErica Lombard

A House for Mr Biswas has been canonized, as Harish Trivedi says, ‘as one of the greatest postcolonial novels in English’. […]

11Aug/17
adebayo some kind of black

Close reading of Diran Adebayo’s Some Kind of Black by Chelsea Haith

11 August 2017Close reading, EssaysDiran AdebayoErica Lombard

Close reading of Diran Adebayo’s Some Kind of Black Chelsea Haith The following extract is taken from pp. 86–88, Chapter 5, “Welcome to the Fold”, of Some Kind of Black (Little, Brown, 1996).  NoRead 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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