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02Mar/21
Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, Literary Activism Symposium 2020 (Photo: Amit Chaudhuri)

Literary Activism mission statements

2 March 2021Essays, ExtractsAmit Chaudhuri, Literary ActivismErica Lombard

Excerpts from the mission statements for Literary Activism events.

21Nov/18
howe loop of jade

‘Crossing from Guangdong’

21 November 2018Extracts, ResourcesSarah HoweErica Lombard

Something sets us looking for a place.
For many minutes every day we lose
ourselves to somewhere else. …

19May/17
regisford hersto rhetoric

‘Waist Bead Serenade’

19 May 2017ExtractsD-Empress Dianne RegisfordErica Lombard

‘Waist Bead Serenade’ This poem comes from D-Empress Dianne Regisford’s ‘Hersto-rhetoric? Na so today!!!’. Highlight any portion of the text to annotate the passage with your own thoughts. It requires a certainRead More…

06Feb/17
smith nw cover

Extract from NW

6 February 2017ExtractsZadie SmithErica Lombard

Extract from NW This extract comes from p. 182 of Zadie Smith’s NW. We’re interested in your reading experience. The text is fully annotatable: highlight any portion of the text to add yourRead More…

06Feb/17
shamsie god cover

Extract from A God in Every Stone

6 February 2017ExtractsKamila ShamsieErica Lombard

Extract from A God in Every Stone This extract comes from pp. 287–288 of Kamila Shamsie’s A God in Every Stone. We’re interested in your reading experience. Did any part of this passageRead More…

06Feb/17
nagra look we have cover

‘Rapinder Slips into Tongues . . .’

6 February 2017ExtractsDaljit NagraErica Lombard

‘Rapinder Slips into Tongues . . .’ This poem is from Daljit Nagra’s Look We Have Coming to Dover! (p. 30). It’s fully annotatable, so you can highlight any portion of the textRead More…

06Feb/17
mohamed black mamba boy cover

Extract from Black Mamba Boy

6 February 2017ExtractsNadifa MohamedErica Lombard

Extract from Black Mamba Boy This extract comes from pp. 1–2 of Nadifa Mohamed’s Black Mamba Boy. Feel free to highlight any portion of the text to annotate the passage with yourRead More…

06Feb/17
forna memory of love cover

Extract from The Memory of Love

6 February 2017ExtractsAminatta FornaErica Lombard

Extract from The Memory of Love This extract comes from pp. 151–152 of Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love. Feel free to highlight any portion of the text to annotate the passageRead More…

06Feb/17
evaristo emperors babe cover

Extract from The Emperor’s Babe

6 February 2017ExtractsBernardine EvaristoErica Lombard

Extract from The Emperor’s Babe This extract comes from p. 3 of Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe (Penguin edition, 2002). The text is fully annotatable: highlight any portion to add your own thoughts.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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