- Elleke Boehmer
Elleke Boehmer (b. 1961) is an internationally renowned writer in two distinct yet linked modes, and teaches world literature at
Oxford University . She is at once a distinguished literary critic specialising in international writing in English, and also a gifted novelist with an established reputation as a searing commentator on experiences of social alienation and split belonging.She is Professor of World Writing in English in the English Faculty at the University of Oxford, and Professorial Governing Body Fellow at
Wolfson College . She is the Founding and General Series Editor of the Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures, a groundbreaking new series which offers stimulating and accessible introductions to postcolonial writing.She is perhaps best known for her definitive edition of
Robert Baden-Powell 's book "Scouting for Boys ", which was described as "a gripping read" by "The Oldie " and "well-annotated" by the prize-winning novelistAlan Hollinghurst . Among her other acclaimed academic works, "Empire, the National and the Postcolonial" was described as "a brilliant analysis of lateral cross-culturalism in the moment of high modernism" by the critic Stephen Slemon, while the "THES " called "Colonial and Postcolonial Literature" "sustained, intelligent and refreshingly sceptical ... an excellent introduction".Unusually for an academic, she is also a first-class novelist: her debut "Screens Against the Sky" was shortlisted for the David Higham Prize in 1991 and hailed as "swift, deft .... an astonishing debut" by the "
Sunday Times ". Her third novel, "Bloodlines", was shortlisted for the Sanlam Literary Award in 2001.Her latest novel, "Nile Baby", will be published in 2008, and will be followed by a groundbreaking short biography of
Nelson Mandela to be published by Oxford University Press.Novels
*"Screens Against The Sky," Elleke Boehmer, Publ. Bloomsbury (1990)
*"An Immaculate Figure," Elleke Boehmer, Publ. Bloomsbury (1993)
*"Bloodlines," Elleke Boehmer, Publ. David Philip (1997)
*"Nile Baby," Elleke Boehmer, Publ. Ayebia (2008)elected academic and critical works
*"Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors," Elleke Boehmer, Publ. Oxford University Press (1995)
*"Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918," Elleke Boehmer, Publ. Oxford University Press (1998)
*"Empire, the National and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920: Resistance in Interaction," Elleke Boehmer, Publ. Oxford University Press (2002)
*"Scouting for Boys ," Robert Baden-Powell, ed. Elleke Boehmer, Publ. Bloomsbury (1990)
*"Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation," Elleke Boehmer, Publ. Manchester University Press (2005)
*"Nelson Mandela: Postcolonial Thinker," Elleke Boehmer, Publ. Oxford University Press (2008)References
*"Writing Women, Writing Place: Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction," Sue Kossew, Publ. Routledge (2006)
*"Remembering the Nation, Dismembering Women," Meg Samuelson, Publ. University of KwaZulu-Natal Press (2007)
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