Postcolonial Writers Make Worlds

[The JRB Daily] English Academy of Southern Africa Awards winners announced The full list of winners of the English Academy of Southern Africa Awards for writing have been announced. In addition to those listed below, earlier this year Professor Chris Zithulele Mann was awarded the English Academy of Southern Africa Gold Medal for distinguished service to English over a

Sara Ahmed in Oxford this Thursday! Come one, come all!

Closing the Door: Complaint as Diversity Work This lecture by Sara Ahmed draws on interviews conducted with staff and students who have made complaints within universities that relate to unfair, unjust or unequal working conditions and to abuses of power such as sexual and racial harassment. It approaches complaint as a form of diversity work:....

There's some brilliant new coverage of our day with Reni Eddo-Lodge last June on the writersmakeworlds website. Great pictures by Stuart Bebb, and writing by Helene Neveu Kringelbach and Chelsea Haith. Come take a look!

This event is now sold out! Hope you have your tickets already! If not, never fear: the recording will be posted online soon afterwards.

*SOLD OUT*
Due to popular demand we moved this event to the Sheldonian Theatre and we have now sold out all tickets (again)!
The event is being recorded and will be available on the TORCH website soon after.

Rita Felski gave a brilliant talk 'Art and Attunement' to the assembled Postcolonial seminar on Thursday in which she thought aloud about using actor-network theory to try to account for moments when an art work (Matisse, a Joni Mitchell song, a cat video, a poem) grabs us in a way we weren't grabbed before. Why is that? how do we become attuned? An unprecedentedly large audience came to hear her and engage in a lively Q and A about elitism, cultural difference, and the logic of capitalism, among other topics. What a fitting close to the academic strand of the Writers Make Worlds series which has explored the different ways in which we turn to books, a paper on engagement that was itself incredibly engaging! Chaired by Elleke Boehmer, photo credit Ankhi Mukherjee.

Bernardine Evaristo, a Forward-Thinking Literary Pioneer Bernardine Evaristo is a forward-thinking literary pioneer who has paved the way for many writers, myself included, by expanding the scope and vitality o...

Good news: The Conversation article 'British literature is richly tangled ... ' that Erica Lombard and I wrote for the launch of the writersmakeworlds website on 16 October 17 was one of their most read articles from our institution this month. This is significant for us, not only because we wanted to help stimulate an important debate about diversity, decolonization, and how we read and teach Literature in English, but also because the article was an early and (clearly) lively entrant in the discussion that then unfolded about precisely these issues in the media and more widely. If you haven't yet read the article, do please take a look.
https://theconversation.com/british-literature-is-richly-tangled-with-other-histories-and-cultures-so-why-is-it-sold-as-largely-white-and-english-85625

Elleke Boehmer

British literature is richly tangled with other histories and cultures – so why is it sold as largely white and English? Why do so many books by non-white authors find themselves in 'global literature'?

Linton Kwesi Johnson is another of our featured writers: our profile page for him has a bio and essay by Louisa Layne, videos, links and more. Check it out!

Linton Kwesi Johnson – writers make worlds Access a range of teaching and learning resources on Linton Kwesi Johnson, including videos and articles, collated by Postcolonial Writers Make Worlds.

See our resource page on Selma Dabbagh - author: featuring a bio and new essay by Dom Davies, video of Dabbagh in conversation with Courttia Newland, interviews, links and more.

Selma Dabbagh – writers make worlds Access a range of teaching and learning resources for the author Selma Dabbagh, including videos and articles, by Postcolonial Writers Make Worlds.