An articulate study of the South African Indian fiction that grew up during and after apartheid, Afrindian Fictions makes a welcome addition to at least two critical fields, South African literary criticism and the far-flung discourses of the South Asian diaspora. As Rastogi justly writes in her Int...

Horizons

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Myriam Bellehigue et al. (18 janv. 2022)

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The renowned painting by Turner on our front cover (courtesy The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) admirably configures the phenomenological, aesthetic, historical, and socio-political issues which this issue’s theme, Horizons, addresses. The storm-tossed slaveship in the background and the drowning slav...

Écriture postcoloniale et terreur

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Elleke Boehmer (2009)

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Il y a deux paradigmes du postcolonialisme, celui des identités diverses et variées d’un univers mondialisé, et celui de la résistance ; chacun est un rapport avec l’héritage et la continuité des empires coloniaux, sur le mode subversif. Chacune de ces approches peut aider à penser les enjeux modern...

Elleke Boehmer and Dominic Davies, eds. Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature and Culture

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Tatiana Pignon (15 mai 2024)

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As a category holding analytical value for understanding contemporary transformations, the urban is as fascinating as it remains elusive. Despite its consistent mobilisation by the social and human sciences since the early twentieth century, the specific ways in which it captures the large-scale tre...

Off-Centring the Real in Postcolonial Fiction

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Arijana Luburić-Cvijanović (30 sept. 2022)

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La littérature post-coloniale a d’abord émergé comme réaction aux représentations coloniales de la réalité, aussi n’est‑il pas surprenant qu’un perpétuel dialogue avec le réel soit au nombre de ses principaux traits. Depuis son entreprise initiale de mise en question des constructions coloniales du...

Elleke Boehmer and Rosinka Chaudhuri, eds., The Indian Postcolonial. A Critical Reader

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Alexis Tadié (21 juil. 2021)

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This absorbing anthology springs from a feeling of discontent with the uses of postcolonialism in recent academic practice. Over the years, the concept has become rather fuzzy, encompassing everything and anything, and being used in universities as an excuse for marketing the “other.” The territory...

Gillian Whitlock, Postcolonial Life Narratives: Testimonial Transactions

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Kerry-Jane Wallart (29 juin 2021)

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This recent delivery in the “Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures” series edited by Elleke Boehmer constitutes an insightful delving into the narrative agencies of colonial and postcolonial texts at large. It does so by scrutinizing a limited but revelatory range of cases from the late 18th ce...

Recension, Elleke Boehmer, Rouven Kunstmann, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Asha Rogers, ed., The Global Histories of Books: Methods and Practices, New Directions in Book History series, Springer International Publishing/ Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

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Cécile Cottenet (2019)

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International audience

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Cécile Cottenet (2019)

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'I was a Girl of my Time': A feminist literary analysis of representations of time and gender in selected contemporary South African fiction by women

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Jessica Murray (1 janv. 2017)

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This article offers a feminist literary analysis of selected contemporary South African texts by women writers in order to explore how they represent female characters' engagement with conventional understandings of time and its chronological and linear progression. These engagements are represented...

CALL FOR PAPERS: ‘LIVES OF OBJECTS’ CONFERENCE, SEPTEMBER 2013

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Nathalie Ortar (7 janv. 2013)

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Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW) www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/clusters/life-writing The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW) exists to encourage practice and research in life-writing in all forms, from biography to autobiography, diaries to blogs, letters to memoirs. It is directed by renowned biograp...

Revisiting the past: Memory and Identity in Elleke Boehmer's Bloodlines and Zoë Wicomb's David's Story and Playing in the Light

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Fiona Mccann (2010)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

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Bodies on the edge: life and death in migration

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International Conference Bodies on the edge: life and death in migration Keynote Speakers Prof. Elleke Boehmer Prof. Didier Fassin Prof. Achille Mbembe Constantly surveilled yet paradoxically unseen, the bodies of dead migrants follow the tracks...

Bodies on the edge: life and death in migration

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Bodies on the edge: life and death in migration

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Bodies on the edge: life and death in migration

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