Postcolonial Poetics is about how we read postcolonial and world literatures today, and about how the structures of that writing shape our reading. The book's eight chapters explore the ways in which postcolonial writing in English from...

This book brings the insights of social geographers and cultural historians into a critical dialogue with literary narratives of urban culture and theories of literary cultural production. In so doing, it explores new ways of...

A collection of short stories capturing the friction between south and north, ambition and tradition and light and dark. The characters struggle to find contentment with themselves, their own pasts and each other. von Boehmer, Elleke