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Spanning life-writing, fiction, and environmental thought, this conversation will appeal to anyone interested in how literature can reshape our sense of distance, place, and belonging in a changing world. It will also be of interest to students and scholars of postcolonial and world literatures. No prior specialist knowledge or preparation is required.

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For Dilip Menon (University of the Witwatersrand), Boehmer “brings erudition, passion and poetry to the project of generating a vast archive of filiations between indigenous cosmologies and the literary imagination. This book shows us how transhemispheric conversations can move us beyond a northern solipsism to think with the planetary.”

Relatedly, the southern semiotics of Frost’s painting practice fold interconnection, impropriety, vulnerability, and desire into an aesthetics of the littoral and the liminal, to pulse beyond mastery, repression, and power.

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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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