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17May/23
The cover of Nadifa Mohamed's The Fortune Men

“Famous British Justice” on trial in Tiger Bay:  A review of Nadifa Mohamed’s The Fortune Men by Ciaran Duncan

17 May 2023EssaysNadifa MohamedErica Lombard

“Famous British Justice” on trial in Tiger Bay: A review of The Fortune Men Ciaran Duncan “The tireless stoker, the poker shark, the elegant wanderer, the love-starved husband, the soft-hearted father” –Read More…

30May/22
Mary Jean Chan and Theophilus Kwek

On Family and Flèche: Theophilus Kwek and Mary Jean Chan Read at Kellogg College

30 May 2022EssaysMary Jean Chan, Theophilus KwekErica Lombard

On Family and Flèche: Theophilus Kwek and Mary Jean Chan Read at Kellogg College Ann Ang 19 May 2022 – an appreciative audience was treated to a lively reading from poets TheophilusRead More…

04Apr/22
A photograph of Tice Cin and Caleb Azumah Nelson in conversation at Daunt Books

Intimacies: On Tice Cin’s Keeping the House and Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Open Water

4 April 2022EssaysCaleb Azumah Nelson, Tice CinErica Lombard

Intimacies: On Tice Cin’s Keeping the House and Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Open Water Eileen Ying Tice Cin and Caleb Azumah Nelson arrived for a reading at Oxford’s Daunt Books on a characteristicallyRead More…

08Feb/22
A photograph of bell hooks

Grieving, Loving: On bell hooks

8 February 2022Essaysbell hooksErica Lombard

Grieving, Loving: On bell hooks Eileen Ying Lover, thinker, dreamer; razor-edged critic and open-armed activist; radical, riotous Black feminist with a penchant for leaving a room fuller than it began – bellRead More…

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…

27Oct/21
C. J. Griffin - 'On Neoliberal Society: The Aesthetic of the Secret in the Fiction of Jackie Kay'

C. J. Griffin – ‘On Neoliberal Society: The Aesthetic of the Secret in the Fiction of Jackie Kay’

27 October 2021VideosJackie KayErica Lombard

C. J. Griffin – ‘On Neoliberal Society: The Aesthetic of the Secret in the Fiction of Jackie Kay’ ‘Jackie Kay: An International Conference’ was hosted online, 3 June 2021, and convened byRead More…

27Oct/21
Ana García-Soriano - 'Liminality and Intimacy in Jackie Kay’s Wish I Was Here (2006)'

Ana García-Soriano – ‘Liminality and Intimacy in Jackie Kay’s Wish I Was Here (2006)’

27 October 2021VideosJackie KayErica Lombard

Ana García-Soriano – ‘Liminality and Intimacy in Jackie Kay’s Wish I Was Here (2006)’ ‘Jackie Kay: An International Conference’ was hosted online, 3 June 2021, and convened by Dr Natasha Alden (AberystwythRead More…

27Oct/21
Nancy Gish - '"Opening Out": Jackie Kay’s Many Voices'

Nancy Gish – ‘“Opening Out”’: Jackie Kay’s Many Voices’

27 October 2021VideosJackie KayErica Lombard

Nancy Gish – ‘“Opening Out”: Jackie Kay’s Many Voices’ ‘Jackie Kay: An International Conference’ was hosted online, 3 June 2021, and convened by Dr Natasha Alden (Aberystwyth University) and Dr Fiona TolanRead More…

27Oct/21
Jackie Kay reads 'Darling'

Jackie Kay reads ‘Darling’

27 October 2021VideosJackie KayErica Lombard

Jackie Kay reads ‘Darling’ ‘Jackie Kay: An International Conference’ was hosted online, 3 June 2021, and convened by Dr Natasha Alden (Aberystwyth University) and Dr Fiona Tolan (Liverpool John Moores University). TheRead 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…

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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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