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Elleke Boehmer has cooked up an aromatic southern stew of artistic life and perspective in her enchanting new book Southern Imagining[.]

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Boehmer explores an astonishing range of writers, artists, travellers and scientists, bringing forth the diversity, complexity and scatteredness of the far south. 

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[A] novel saturated with extremes: the extremity of the distance between the two lovers, the extreme difficulties of communication, given the lack of taken-for-granted communication infrastructure at the Antarctic, and the extreme climate conditions [the character] Niall endures.

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In it, she calls it “a novel of ideas, stylised in its approach to dialogue and description as it explores questions of symmetry and opposition – north/south, here/there, now/then. … adept at capturing the oppressiveness of the icescape”.

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Each story, delivered with a minimal grace and a compassionate eye for all points of view, offers a new angle. Powerful, touching and razor-sharp, they provide multiple entry points to view the complex morality change places on us as individuals and the societies we inhabit.  Whichever way you turn these stories, the light of experience is clear to see and the emotion rings true.

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It is difficult to do justice, in a brief review, to a book as detailed and deliberative as Postcolonial Poetics. Elleke Boehmer’s literary readings range across diverse literatures, many identified with the global south, but almost all of them breaking the bounds of cultural containment while crossing the limits of sovereign territorial borders. [. . .] The score of a work––its range of voices, its tonal transformations, its mediations of mobility, its orchestration of cultural signs and political dissonances––far exceeds its adherence to any ideological or political core.

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Boehmer is a distinguished novelist and poet. From her subtle writing we learn the virtue of waiting and watching for the story to appear in its own time. Boehmer’s poetics generate their own warmth and weather, and her gift  lies in her ability to allow works of literature to bear fruit in the seasons of their becoming.

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In their best, often their most surreal moments, Elleke Boehmer’s stories are memorably lifelike.

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An excerpt:

Boehmer’s book is a gift of discovery for us all, whether we come from the South or the North, a reminder of the transformative power of acceptance

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