Elleke Boehmer has published four widely praised novels, Screens again the Sky (short-listed David Higham Prize, 1990), An Immaculate Figure (1993), Bloodlines (short-listed Sanlam Prize, 2000), and Nile Baby (2008), as well as short stories and memoir sketches. Internationally known for her research in international writing and postcolonial theory, she is the author of the world best-seller Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors (1995, 2005), the monographs Empire, the National and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920 (2002) and Stories of Women (2005), and of Nelson Mandela (2008). She has also produced the acclaimed edition of Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys (2004). Elleke Boehmer is the Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford.
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