Bøger af Elleke Boehmer

Elleke Boehmer's work on the crucial intersections between independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical in the field. This book combines her keynote essays on the mother figure and the postcolonial nation, with incisive new work on male autobiography, "daughter" writers, the colonial body, the trauma of the post-colony, and the nation in a transnational context.

Why is the nation in a postcolonial world so often seen as a motherland? Stories of women is a pathbreaking study of the perenially fascinating relationship between foundational fictions of the nation and gendered images. The book focuses critically on postcolonial spaces ranging from West Africa to India.

Postcolonial Poetics is about how we read postcolonial and world literatures today, and about how the structures of that writing shape our reading.

A collection of short stories capturing the friction between south and north, ambition and tradition and light and dark. The characters struggle to find contentment with themselves, their own pasts and each other.