Elleke Boehmer
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Elleke Boehmer
@ellekeboehmer.bsky.social

Writer, reader. To the Volcano 2019, Postcolonial Poetics 2018, Ice Shock 2025, Southern Imagining 2025. FRSL 2019, FRHistS 2019 http://ellekeboehmer.com

Elleke Boehmer, FRSL, FRHistS is Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford, and a Professorial Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College. She is an acclaimed novelist and a founding figure in the field of Postcolonial Studies, internationally recognised for her research in colonial and postcolonial literature, history and theory. Her main areas of interest include the literature of empire and resistance to empire; sub-Saharan African and South Asian literatures; modernism; migration and diaspora; feminism, masculinity, and identity; nationalism; terrorism; J. M. Coetzee, Katherine Mansfield, and Nelson Mandela; and life writing. .. more

Art 25%
Political science 21%

Hah! Lovely to see! 🩵

A conversation about my novel Ice Shock. Valley Press. Next month in London, 18th of February. All welcome. Will be chatting with the illimitable Kate Kennedy.

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Ice Shock: A Love Story with Elleke Boehmer - Hatchards, Piccadilly
We hope you can join us for a discussion with Ellek Boehmer, author of 'Ice Shock', in conversation with Kate Kennedy here at Hatchards.
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In Writing Timbuktu, Shamil Jeppie brings to light the long overlooked, centuries-long, culture of the book in West Africa.

Available January 20 (17 Mar UK pub).

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#History #ReadUP

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Had a great chat with Tony Hoare on Talk Radio Europe! Amazing how many angles of the book we explored in the time we had. Kaleidoscopic is the wor(l)d. Seeing the world from the far south means seeing more holistically.

When the sun shines at midwinter.

Remember last year so well. Wish I could be there!

Happy birthday to her!!!

HNY!!? What happened, dear Karina?! Please stay safe. ❤️

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What a wonderful way to end the literary year: @exclusivebooks.bsky.social Hyde Park have been posting lists of the books their readers loved most this year 👏✨️
Their proudly SA fiction bestsellers of the year have THE FOURTH BOY on the top of the list! 💛

Thank you for all your amazing support!

Hurrah!!!

Publication Day for ‘Southern Imagining: a literary and cultural history of the far southern hemisphere’! Just slipping in under the 2025 wire!

Most media overlooks the Southern Hemisphere completely.

For a more holistic sense of our planet, look no further than this book!

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A new compass for global reading: looking at the world from the far southern latitudes.

Southern Imagining by @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social is now available in the UK/Europe! Order yours today: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Available in North America on February 10.

#Literature #ReadUP

So glad to have been able to include reference to Mxolisi Nyezwa in Southern Imagining!

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We've celebrated 165 Christmases at the Museum. Here's to many more. Happy Christmas to all of those who celebrate.

We are closed the 24, 25, 26 of December but are open throughout the New Year.

Talking about volcanic repercussions in both recent fictions, To the volcano and Ice shock, in Pisa, Italy at this explosive conference!

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Congrats to Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, whose book Required Reading won the @modernlanguage.bsky.social's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for South Asian Studies! Explore her groundbreaking look at how ordinary writing shaped the way colonial subjects understood their place in empire: hubs.ly/Q03Yb5cj0

OMG, I said to myself, what is that lovely book I see?
And then I saw!
Thank you @princetonupress.bsky.social
Will try to do you proud.
In Southern Imagining, @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social offers a new compass for global reading: looking at the world from the far southern latitudes.

Available 30 December. Preorder yours today! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#Literature #ReadUP

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In Southern Imagining, @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social offers a new compass for global reading: looking at the world from the far southern latitudes.

Available 30 December. Preorder yours today! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#Literature #ReadUP