Elleke on Marina Warner’s What is a Story?
Elleke has recently been featured on Marina Warner’s BBC Radio 4 series, What is a Story? Hear her on the sixth episode, ‘Filling in the Gaps,’ talking about literature, history […]
Elleke featured on BBC Radio 4’s The Human Zoo
Elleke contributed to the BBC Radio 4 programme The Human Zoo on 30 June, in an episode entitled ‘The Improvising Mind.’ Listen to the episode
Blackwell’s Oxford presents: Elleke Boehmer – The Shouting in the Dark
Elleke Boehmer will be reading from her new novel,The Shouting in the Dark: an intense and unforgettable story about a young woman’s quest for sanctuary far away from the imprisonments
The Postcolonial Low Countries: Literature, Colonialism, and Multiculturalism
Published by Lexington Books, 2012 Edited with Sarah de Mul The Postcolonial Low Countries is the first book to bring together comparative approaches to the emergent field of neerlandophone postcolonial
The Indian Postcolonial: A Reader
Published by Routledge, 2010 Edited with Rosinka Chaudhuri India has often been at the centre of debates about the postcolonial and transnational condition. Offering a challenging new direction for the
Terror and the Postcolonial: A Concise Companion
Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 Edited by Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton Terror and the Postcolonial is a major comparative study of terrorism and its representations in postcolonial literature and culture.
J. M. Coetzee in Context and Theory
Published by Continuum, 2009 Edited with Robert Eaglestone and Katy Iddiols Nobel Laureate 2003 and the first author to win the Booker Prize twice, J. M. Coetzee is perhaps the world’s
Nelson Mandela
Published by Oxford University Press, 2008 As well as being a remarkable statesman and one of the world’s longest-detained political prisoners, Nelson Mandela has become an exemplary figure of non-racialism
Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation
Published by Manchester University Press, 2005 Elleke Boehmer’s work on the crucial intersections between independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical. ‘Stories of women’ combines her keynote essays on
Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship
Published by Oxford University Press, 2004 Edited with an introduction and notes A startling amalgam of Zulu war-cry and imperial and urban myth, of borrowed tips on health and hygiene,