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Postcolonial Women Writers

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Professor Elleke Boehmer notes the distinct lack of women writers on the Post/Colonial Writing page of the Great Writers website, and explores why this is the case.
She draws attention to the phenomenon of double colonization and, taking Scottish/South African author Zoe Wicomb as an example, looks at the marketing and publishing industries to discuss why postcolonial women writers are less well-known than their male counterparts.

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Interviews on Great Writers
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Elleke Boehmer
Dominic Davies
Keywords
empire writes back
postcolonial
Zoe Wicomb
south africa
colonization
Imperialism
South Asia
#greatwriters
women
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 08/10/2012
Duration: 00:19:55

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