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 | African American Literature: An Introduction | This lecture gives an overview of key writings by black American authors, beginning with the slave… | Tessa Roynon |
| 2 | African American Literature: An Introduction | Tessa Roynon | |
| 3 | Toni Morrison: An Introduction | This lecture surveys the life and work of one of America’s greatest novelists, Toni Morrison (1931-… | Tessa Roynon |
| 4 | Toni Morrison: An Introduction | Tessa Roynon | |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | Postcolonial Women Writers | Professor Elleke Boehmer notes the distinct lack of women writers on the Post/Colonial Writing page… | Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies |
| 7 | DH Lawrence: A Postcolonial Writer? | Professor Peter McDonald draws on the work of Indian novelist and literary critic, Amit Chaudhuri,… | Peter McDonald |
| 8 | Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott | Jason Allen offers a comparative discussion of two important Caribbean poets and playwrights, Aime… | Dominic Davies, Jason Allen-Paisant |
| 9 | J.M. Coetzee | Professor Peter McDonald gives a talk on the work of South African Nobel Laureate, J.M. Coetzee | Peter McDonald |
| 10 | Walcott and Naipaul: History and Myth | Catherine Brown, Lecturer in English Literature, compares West Indian writers Derek Walcott and… | Catherine Brown |