Elleke Boehmer

Elleke Boehmer, FRSL, FRHistS (lahir tahun 1961) adalah Profesor Sastra Dunia dalam Bahasa Inggris di University of Oxford, dan seorang Profesorial Governing Body Fellow di Wolfson College. Ia adalah seorang novelis terkemuka dan tokoh pendiri dalam bidang Studi Poskolonial, yang diakui secara internasional untuk penelitiannya dalam sastra dan teori kolonial dan poskolonial. Bidang minat utamanya mencakup sastra imperialis dan perlawanan terhadap imperialisme; sastra sub-Sahara Afrika dan Asia Selatan; modernisme; migrasi dan diaspora; feminisme, maskulinitas, dan identitas; nasionalisme; terorisme; J. M. Coetzee, Katherine Mansfield, dan Nelson Mandela; serta penulisan kehidupan.

Melalui karya fiksinya, Boehmer telah membangun reputasi internasional sebagai seorang komentator mengenai dampak sejarah kolonial, khususnya di Afrika Selatan pasca-apartheid dan Britania pasca-kolonial.

Referensi

Sumber

• Sue Kossew, Writing Women, Writing Place: Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction, Routledge (2006)
• Meg Samuelson, Remembering the Nation, Dismembering Women, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press (2007)

Daftar pustaka

• Margaret Daymond, “Bodies of Writing: Rediscovering the Past in Zoe Wicomb’s David’s Story and Elleke Boehmer’s Bloodlines”, Kunapipi 24.1–2 (2002), pp. 25–38
• Georgina Horrell, “A Whiter Shade of Pale: White Femininity as Guilty Masquerade in 'New' (White) South African Women's Writing”, Journal of Southern African Studies 30.4 (2004), pp. 765–776
• Meg Samuelson, Remembering the Nation, Dismembering Women. Durban: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press (2007)

Pranala luar

• Faculty of English Language and Literature, Oxford profile
• Wolfson College, Oxford profile
• Oxford Centre for Life Writing
• “Making Britain”, The Open University
• “Race and Resistance in the Long Nineteenth Century”, University of Oxford
• “CoHaB: Diasporic constructions of Home and Belonging”
• Planned Violence: Post/colonial Urban Infrastructures and Literature
• “Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures”, Oxford University Press
• “Global and textual webs in an age of transnational capitalism; or, what isn't new about Empire”, Postcolonial Studies 7.1, 2004
• “Postcolonial terrorist: the example of Nelson Mandela”, Parallax 11.4, 2005
• “Postcolonial writing and terror”, Wasafiri 22.2, 2007
• “Beyond the icon: Nelson Mandela in his 90th year”, openDemocracy, 12 November 2008
• “A postcolonial aesthetic: repeating upon the present”, in Wilson, J., C. Şandru & S. Lawson Welsh (eds), Rerouting the Postcolonial: new directions for the new millennium. London: Routledge, 2010
• “Mandela, icon”, openDemocracy, 9 December 2013
• Discussion of “South Asians Making Britain”, University of Oxford Alumni Weekend 2008
• Interview with Zoe Norridge, University of Oxford, 10 November 2011
• “Canon Under Fire”, a debate with Douglas Murray, Toby Young, and Nigel Warburton, Hay on Wye, 2011
• Karina Magdalena Szczurek, “Exploring the In-Between: Elleke Boehmer, Writer, Critic and Long-Distance Friend”, itch, 5 March 2009