Immagine dell'autore.

Elleke Boehmer

Autore di Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918

26+ opere 321 membri 2 recensioni 1 preferito

Sull'Autore

Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford.

Comprende i nomi: R Boehme, R. Boehm

Fonte dell'immagine: Danielle Battigelli

Opere di Elleke Boehmer

Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918 (1998) — A cura di — 84 copie
Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction (2008) 71 copie
Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (1995) 62 copie
Nelson Mandela (A Brief Insight) (2008) 14 copie
The global histories of books (2017) 11 copie
Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire (2015) 10 copie
To the Volcano, and other stories (2019) 9 copie
Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920: Resistance in Interaction (2002) 8 copie
Bloodlines (2001) 8 copie
The Shouting in the Dark (2015) 8 copie
Screens Against the Sky (1990) 5 copie
Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation (2005) 4 copie
The Indian Postcolonial: A Critical Reader (2010) 4 copie
Nile Baby (2008) 3 copie
De antenne 3 copie
Esplora le opere

Opere correlate

One World Two: A Second Global Anthology of Short Stories (2016) — Prefazione — 18 copie
J.M. Coetzee persoon en personage (2010) — Collaboratore — 8 copie

Etichette

Informazioni generali

Nome canonico
Boehmer, Elleke
Data di nascita
1961
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
Zuid-Afrika

Utenti

Recensioni

Screens against the Sky di Elleke Boehmer
Weird, utterly compulsive read that socks you in the stomach.
In the wake of the death of her father- a comfortably-off White S African with racist views - Annemarie and her mother enter a weird, cocooned existence. Security and comfort seem to be the watchword of mother's life now- a life based around food, trivia and long periods in their apartment.
As Annmarie- slowly, minimally - becomes aware of the very different existence led by the Black population, this "other world" out there threatens to break through the screens and mobiles with which the two women blot out Tough Questions.… (altro)
 
Segnalato
starbox | Feb 7, 2023 |
 
Segnalato
AfricaCari | Dec 11, 2012 |
Vedi altre recensioni

Premi e riconoscimenti

Ordina per premioOrdina per opera
The Sunday Times Fiction Prize
David Higham Prize for Fiction
Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature

Potrebbero anche piacerti

Bill Ashcroft
Nelson Mandela
Laura Otis
Edward W. Said
Thomas Pakenham
Anthony Trollope
Matthew Gregory Lewis
Elaine Showalter
J. G. Farrell
Michael R. Booth
Vedi tutto

Autori correlati

Chris Brazier
Hans Achterhuis
James Joyce Contributor
Aurobindo Sri Contributor
Isabella Valancy Crawford Contributor
George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Contributor
Toru Dutt Contributor
Dorothea Fairbridge Contributor
J. A. Froude Contributor
W. E. Henley Contributor
Duncan Campbell Scott Contributor
George Otto Trevelyan Contributor
Alfred Tennyson Contributor
William Butler Yeats Contributor
Henry Morton Stanley Contributor
A.B. Banjo Paterson Contributor
Swami Vivekananda Contributor
Isabella Bird Contributor
Archibald Lampman Contributor
A. G. Stephens Contributor
Hugh Clifford Contributor
Alice Perrin Contributor
Cornelia Sorabji Contributor
Edward Wilmot Blyden Contributor
Flora Annie Steel Contributor
J. E. Casely Hayford Contributor
Joseph Chamberlain Contributor
Sarojini Naidu Contributor
John Seeley Contributor
Solomon T. Plaatje Contributor
Mrs Ernest Ames Contributor
John Jacob Thomas Contributor
Edmund Candler Contributor
Barbara Baynton Contributor
John Beames Contributor
Algernon Charles Swinburne Contributor
Joseph Conrad Contributor
Robert Louis Stevenson Contributor
Rudyard Kipling Contributor
Anthony Trollope Contributor
H. Rider Haggard Contributor
G. A. Henty Contributor
John Ruskin Contributor
Katherine Mansfield Contributor
Rabindranath Tagore Contributor
A. E. Housman Contributor
Stephen Leacock Contributor
Olive Schreiner Contributor
Leonard Woolf Contributor
Henry Lawson Contributor
Thomas Hardy Contributor
Edwin Arnold Contributor
B. E. Baughan Contributor
Mary Anne Barker Contributor
Alfred Austin Contributor
Henry Newbolt Contributor
Charles G. D. Roberts Contributor
Bliss Carman Contributor
William Watson Contributor
David Livingstone Contributor
Sara Jeannette Duncan Contributor
J. A. Hobson Contributor
Mary Kingsley Contributor
Claude McKay Contributor
Marcus Clarke Contributor
Emily Manning Contributor
Peter Bergsma Translator

Statistiche

Opere
26
Opere correlate
2
Utenti
321
Popolarità
#73,715
Voto
½ 3.4
Recensioni
2
ISBN
71
Lingue
3
Preferito da
1

Grafici & Tabelle

Vedi altri Grafici e tabelle