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27May/20
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‘It’s Just a Piece of Paper’: How Images of Paper across The Beekeeper of Aleppo Represent Discrimination against Refugees

27 May 2020EssaysChristy LefteriErica Lombard

‘It’s Just a Piece of Paper’: How Images of Paper across The Beekeeper of Aleppo Represent Discrimination against Refugees Daniele Nunziata Postcolonial studies and refugee writing are two fields with significant pointsRead More…

20Jan/20
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No Beautiful Poems about Violence

20 January 2020EssaysPatience AgbabiErica Lombard

No Beautiful Poems about Violence Chelsea Haith Patience Agbabi’s reading from her work at a Writers Make Worlds event in the Oxford English Faculty on 5 December 2019 shook audience preconceptions ofRead More…

30Dec/19
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Settlers and Outsiders: British Writers at the End of Empire

30 December 2019EssaysDoris Lessing, J. G. Ballard, Penelope LivelyErica Lombard

Emma Parker discusses several white British authors not typically considered as ‘postcolonial’, but whose work nevertheless addresses the long legacies of empire.

25Jul/19
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Kwame Dawes in Oxford

25 July 2019EssaysKwame DawesErica Lombard

Kwame Dawes in Oxford Katherine Collins During Kwame Dawes’s residency in Oxford in 2018, he gave generously of his time and enthusiasm for poetry in a series of events. These included theRead More…

19Jul/19
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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’. […]

08Jul/19
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Aida Edemariam: Telling Wives’ and Grandmothers’ Tales

8 July 2019EssaysAida EdemariamErica Lombard

Aida Edemariam: Telling Wives’ and Grandmothers’ Tales Text by Elleke Boehmer Aida Edemariam is a writer, journalist and biographer of dual Ethiopian and Canadian heritage, who grew up in Addis Ababa, theRead More…

26Jun/19
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The National Theatre brings the tangled story of Small Island vividly to the stage

26 June 2019EssaysAndrea LevyErica Lombard

The National Theatre production based on Andrea Levy’s unforgettable novel Small Island (April–August 2019) brings all the heart and angst of this tangled story vividly to the stage.

19May/19
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The Responsibilities of the Author and the Archive: On the Award of the Bodley Medal to Sir Kazuo Ishiguro

19 May 2019EssaysKazuo IshiguroErica Lombard

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro knows how to command a room, even when that room is Oxford’s imposing Sheldonian Theatre brimming with an audience in attendance to celebrate his life and work.

14May/19
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Students exercised by decolonisation show us a new way of opening out English studies

14 May 2019EssaysElleke BoehmerErica Lombard

Students exercised by decolonisation show us a new way of opening out English studies Elleke Boehmer This piece was first published in the Times Higher Education supplement, 2 May 2019, pp. 42–3.Read More…

29Jan/19
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‘Why Reni-Eddo Lodge is inspiring me to keep talking about race’ by Hélène Neveu Kringelbach

29 January 2019EssaysReni Eddo-LodgeErica Lombard

Why Reni-Eddo Lodge is inspiring me to keep talking about race Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, January 2019 Something special happened in Oxford on a warm day in June 2018. Reni Eddo-Lodge was inRead 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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