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Nelson Mandela
Elleke Boehmer

ISBN10: 0192803018 ISBN13: 9780192803016
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 17 Jul 2008
Set within a biographical frame, this book not only explores the great anti-apartheid leader's long and multi-faceted life, but also examines the way in which many different interconnected stories, histories, values, and symbols have combined to... More

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Empire Writing
Elleke Boehmer

ISBN10: 0199555591 ISBN13: 9780199555598
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 Jul 2009
'The contact with ...primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart.' (Joseph Conrad) 'Flowers look loveliest in their native soil ...plucked, they fade, And lose the colours Nature on them laid. More

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ISBN: 9781770098107 - Sharmilla and Other Portraits

Sharmilla and Other Portraits
Elleke Boehmer

ISBN10: 1770098100 ISBN13: 9781770098107
Publisher: Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 20 Aug 2010
Featuring short stories that deliberately avoid references to the apartheid era, this literary collection introduces a new kind of South African literature about social transition. The edgy narratives follow a cast of characters, including a... More

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ISBN: 9780199253715 - Colonial and Postcolonial Literature

Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
Elleke Boehmer

ISBN10: 0199253714 ISBN13: 9780199253715
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 Oct 2005
Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, the leading critical overview of colonial and postcolonial literary studies, is an ideal historical introduction to the field. Highly praised from the time of its first publication for its lucidity, breadth... More

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Nile Baby
Elleke Boehmer

ISBN10: 0955507936 ISBN13: 9780955507939
Publisher: Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 May 2008
Nile Baby is an imaginatively daring story with a universal appeal, about two young friends - Alice Brass Khan and Arnie Binns, both twelve, both pre-teen misfits - who discover a ninety-year-old foetus specimen in the laboratory storeroom of... More

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Scouting for Boys
Robert Baden-Powell Elleke Boehmer

ISBN10: 0192802461 ISBN13: 9780192802460
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition: annotated edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 Feb 2005
Originally published in 1908, this title is the original blueprint and inspiration for the Boy Scout Movement. This new edition serves up a wonderful hodgepodge of true crime stories, stern moralizing, stock adventure tales, natural history... More

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ISBN: 9780415567664 - The Indian Postcolonial

The Indian Postcolonial
Elleke Boehmer, Rosinka Chaudhuri

ISBN10: 0415567661 ISBN13: 9780415567664
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 23 Sep 2010
Focusing on the presentation of postcolonial theory within an Indian context, this title includes sections on visual cultures, translating cultural traditions, the ethical text, and global/cosmopolitan worlds. Each section collects work from... More

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Stories of Women
Elleke Boehmer

ISBN10: 0719068797 ISBN13: 9780719068799
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jun 2009
Elleke Boehmer's work on the crucial intersections between independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical in the field. This book combines her keynote essays on the mother figure and the postcolonial nation, with incisive new... More

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Bloodlines
Elleke Boehmer

ISBN10: 0864863616 ISBN13: 9780864863614
Publisher: New Africa Books (Pty) Ltd David Philip, Publishers
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Mar 2001
This novel about the birth of the new South Africa explores the moving friendship between two women thrown together by history, and asks searching questions about the power of testimony and reconciliation, and the price we pay for the pain of the... More

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ISBN: 9780198184454 - Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920 Resistance in Interaction

Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920 Resistance in Interaction
ELLEKE, BOEHMER

ISBN10: 9780191513275 ISBN13: 9780191513275
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
This book explores the political and textual interrelations which linked anti-colonialists, nationalists, and modernists in the years 1890-1920. Focusing on both canonical and less well-known figures, and interconnecting Europe, India... More

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