19Jul/19
Close reading of Kwame Dawes’s ‘The Third Former’s Burden’ from Progeny of Air, by William Ghosh
A House for Mr Biswas has been canonized, as Harish Trivedi says, ‘as one of the greatest postcolonial novels in English’. […]
08Jul/19
Aida Edemariam: Telling Wives’ and Grandmothers’ Tales
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
The National Theatre brings the tangled story of Small Island vividly to the stage
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
The Responsibilities of the Author and the Archive: On the Award of the Bodley Medal to Sir Kazuo Ishiguro
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
Students exercised by decolonisation show us a new way of opening out English studies
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
‘Why Reni-Eddo Lodge is inspiring me to keep talking about race’ by Hélène Neveu Kringelbach
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…
11Aug/17
Close reading of Diran Adebayo’s Some Kind of Black by Chelsea Haith
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…
10Aug/17
Motherhood and Mother Tongue in Sarah Howe’s ‘Crossing from Guangdong’ by Lorraine Lau
For Sarah Howe, the English-speaking daughter of an orphaned Chinese mother, the themes of motherhood and mother tongue are inextricably linked.
09Aug/17
‘Labour and Literary Form in Harare North’ by Josh Jewell
In literary studies, we tend to think of cultural forms (poems/plays/novels) as imaginatively conjured containers for a particular writer’s plot and characters…
08Aug/17
‘The Presence of the Ghazal in The Meanest Flower (2007)’ by Holly Fathi
Reviewers often position Mimi Khalvati as a ‘Persian poet’ due to her inclusion of Persian imagery, form, and the occasional line of Farsi in her poetry.