Contemporary Writers
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The parameters of both ‘Contemporary’ and ‘Postcolonial’, the adjectives that preface the writers included within this section, are each astonishingly fluid, shifting and impossible to define in any rigid or fixed way. Indeed, simply calling an author a ‘Contemporary Postcolonial Writer’ is becoming increasingly complex, contingent on a range of factors and presuppositions. Read more
| # | Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977– ) was raised in an Igbo family in Enugu, south-eastern Nigeria. Her… | Daniele Nunziata |
| 2 | African American Literature: An Introduction | This lecture gives an overview of key writings by black American authors, beginning with the slave… | Tessa Roynon |
| 3 | African American Literature: An Introduction | Tessa Roynon | |
| 4 | Toni Morrison: An Introduction | This lecture surveys the life and work of one of America’s greatest novelists, Toni Morrison (1931-… | Tessa Roynon |
| 5 | Toni Morrison: An Introduction | Tessa Roynon | |
| 6 | Hilary Mantel - Bart Van Es and Helen Small in Conversation about Third-Person Narrative in the Cromwell Trilogy | Readers of Hilary Mantel's trilogy of novels Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and The Mirror &… | Bart van Es, Helen Small |
| 7 | Sarah Howe - Artefacts of Writing | In her exquisite first collection, Sarah Howe explores a dual heritage, journeying back to Hong… | Peter D McDonald |
| 8 | Kirsty Gunn - Artefacts of Writing | At the end of the street where I lived, a street of gracious two-storey houses set in large… | Peter D McDonald |
| 9 | Tracy K. Smith - Artefacts of Writing | We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal 1. Who owns these words?… | Peter D McDonald |
| 10 | Reading between life and work: Reflections on J.M. Coetzee’s life-writing | The work of J.M. Coetzee – the novels, taken together with the memoirs and the critical essays –… | Elleke Boehmer |