Postcolonial Women Writers
Professor Elleke Boehmer notes the distinct lack of women writers on the Post/Colonial Writing page of the Great Writers website, and explores why this is the case.
She draws attention to the phenomenon of double colonization and, taking Scottish/South African author Zoe Wicomb as an example, looks at the marketing and publishing industries to discuss why postcolonial women writers are less well-known than their male counterparts.
Date Published:
8 October 2012
Source:
Contributors:
Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies
In Collection(s):
Colonial Writers, Contemporary Writers, Celebrating women’s writing: the pen in their hands
Keywords:
postcolonial, Women, Zoe Wicomb, South Africa, colonization, imperialism, empire writes back, South Asia, #greatwriters
Cite:
Postcolonial Women Writers at https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via https://dev.writersinspire.it.ox.ac.uk/content/postcolonial-women-writers. Published on 08 October 2012. Accessed on 15 May 2026.
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