Contemporary Writers

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
11	Patience Agbabi reading and conversation	In this podcast the dynamic poet Patience Agbabi is in conversation about her Ted Hughes short-…	Patience Agbabi, Elleke Boehmer, Marion Turner
12	Postcolonial Women Writers	Professor Elleke Boehmer notes the distinct lack of women writers on the Post/Colonial Writing page…	Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies
13	DH Lawrence: A Postcolonial Writer?	Professor Peter McDonald draws on the work of Indian novelist and literary critic, Amit Chaudhuri,…	Peter McDonald
14	Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott	Jason Allen offers a comparative discussion of two important Caribbean poets and playwrights, Aime…	Dominic Davies, Jason Allen-Paisant
15	J.M. Coetzee	Professor Peter McDonald gives a talk on the work of South African Nobel Laureate, J.M. Coetzee	Peter McDonald
16	J.M. Coetzee	Professor Peter McDonald gives a talk on the work of South African Nobel Laureate, J.M. Coetzee.	Peter McDonald
17	Walcott and Naipaul: History and Myth	Catherine Brown, Lecturer in English Literature, compares West Indian writers Derek Walcott and…	Catherine Brown

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