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16Jan/17
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Daljit Nagra’s Look We Have Coming to Dover!

16 January 2017Featured works, Summary, context and historyDaljit NagraErica Lombard

The poems in Daljit Nagra’s celebrated debut collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover! (2007), are based on Nagra’s experiences as the son of Punjabi parents who came from India to Britain. Combining playfulness, pathosRead More…

16Jan/17
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D-Empress Dianne Regisford: ‘Hersto-rhetoric? Na so today!!!’

16 January 2017Featured works, Performance, Poetry, Summary, context and historyD-Empress Dianne RegisfordErica Lombard

In a series of seven sculptures created by abstract expressionist artiste D-Empress Dianne Regisford, the multi-sensory performance installation, ‘Hersto-rhetoric? Na so today!!!’ is at once an incantation, a lament and an invocationRead More…

16Jan/17
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Kamila Shamsie’s A God in Every Stone

16 January 2017Featured works, Summary, context and historyKamila ShamsieErica Lombard

Kamila Shamsie’s audacious and affecting A God in Every Stone ranges across continents and histories, from the fifth-century reign of Persian King Darius, through to the suffrage movement in pre-1914 England, fromRead More…

16Jan/17
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Zadie Smith’s NW

16 January 2017Featured works, Summary, context and historyZadie SmithErica Lombard

NW (2012), Zadie Smith’s fourth novel, documents the lives and experiences of four people who come from the same area in north-west London: Leah Hanwell, Felix Cooper, Natalie (née Keisha) Blake andRead 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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