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Elleke Boehmer

Autor(a) de Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918

26+ Works 321 Membros 2 Críticas 1 Favorited

About the Author

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

Inclui os nomes: R Boehme, R. Boehm

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Obras por Elleke Boehmer

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

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

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Boehmer, Elleke
Data de nascimento
1961
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
Zuid-Afrika

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Screens against the Sky por 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.… (mais)
 
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The Sunday Times Fiction Prize
David Higham Prize for Fiction
Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature

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Estatísticas

Obras
26
Also by
2
Membros
321
Popularidade
#73,715
Avaliação
½ 3.4
Críticas
2
ISBN
71
Línguas
3
Marcado como favorito
1

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