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

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1	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
2	J.M. Coetzee	Professor Peter McDonald gives a talk on the work of South African Nobel Laureate, J.M. Coetzee...	Peter McDonald

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1	African American Literature: An Introduction	This lecture gives an overview of key writings by black American authors, beginning with the...	Tessa Roynon
2	Toni Morrison: An Introduction	This lecture surveys the life and work of one of America’s greatest novelists, Toni Morrison (...	Tessa Roynon
3	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,...	Helen Small, Bart van Es
4	Postcolonial Women Writers	Professor Elleke Boehmer notes the distinct lack of women writers on the Post/Colonial Writing...	Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies
5	DH Lawrence: A Postcolonial Writer?	Professor Peter McDonald draws on the work of Indian novelist and literary critic, Amit...	Peter McDonald
6	Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott	Jason Allen offers a comparative discussion of two important Caribbean poets and playwrights,...	Jason Allen-Paisant, Dominic Davies
7	J.M. Coetzee	Professor Peter McDonald gives a talk on the work of South African Nobel Laureate, J.M. Coetzee...	Peter McDonald
8	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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1	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977– ) was raised in an Igbo family in Enugu, south-...	Daniele Nunziata
2	Sarah Howe - Artefacts of Writing	*In her exquisite first collection,...*	Peter D McDonald
3	Kirsty Gunn - Artefacts of Writing	At the end of the street where I lived, a...	Peter D McDonald
4	Tracy K. Smith - Artefacts of Writing	We hold these truths to be...	Peter D McDonald
5	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

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Contemporary Writers