The Shouting in the Dark featured on SA radio
The Shouting in the Dark was recently featured on Eusebius McKaiser’s Literature Corner on South African’s 702 radio, where it was reviewed by Andrea van Wyk. Listen here:
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Review of Indian Arrivals in The Review of English Studies
Máire Ní Fhlathúin’s review of Indian Arrivals, published in 2016 in The Review of English Studies has just come to our attention. The piece contains high praise for the book:
Kate McLoughlin: “Elleke Boehmer: Lammergeyer and Gogga”
Prof. Kate McLoughlin (Oxford) has written a blog post on a memorable scene in The Shouting in the Dark for the TORCH blog: The scene that stays with me from
Article in the Leidsch Dagblad about the Indische Letterenlezing
Anika van de Wijngaard has written an article (in Dutch) in the Leidsch Dagblad about Elleke’s ‘Indische Letterenlezing’ on 22 September. Read it here
New Indian Arrivals review in Interventions
A detailed new review of Indian Arrivals, written by Anshuman A. Mondal, has been published in Volume 19, Issue 5 of Interventions (May 2017). In particular, Mondal praises Boehmer’s ‘extraordinarily
Indian Arrivals mentioned in SEL
Jeffrey N. Cox includes a short synopsis of Indian Arrivals in his article “Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century” in Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 56/4 (2016). He observes: Boehmer discovers in
Writing Migrant Lives in the South: A Conversation between Elleke Boehmer and Meg Samuelson
Newly published in the Sydney Review of Books: This conversation between Elleke Boehmer and Meg Samuelson began in a book-talk seminar hosted by the Institute for Humanities in Africa at
Moving Worlds review of The Shouting in the Dark
A new review for The Shouting in the Dark is in the latest issue of Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings (16.2). Writer Melissa de Villiers calls it a “fine coming-of-age
Biblio review of The Shouting in the Dark
Tabish Khair has written as evocative review of The Shouting in the Dark in the September–November 2016 issue of Biblio: A Review of Books: A haunting evocation of a childhood,
Indian Arrivals wins ESSE Book Award 2016!
Indian Arrivals, Elleke’s latest academic publication, has won a 2016 ESSE Book Award for Literatures in the English language! The awards were announced at the ESSE (The European Society for the