Description
About the Author
Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford, and Professorial Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College. She has published Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (1995, 2005), Empire, the National and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920 (2002), Stories of Women (2005), and the biography Nelson Mandela (2008). She is the author of four acclaimed novels, as well as the short-story collection Sharmilla and Other Portraits (2010). She edited Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys (2004), and the anthology Empire Writing (1998), and co-edited J.M. Coetzee in Writing and Theory (2009), Terror and the Postcolonial (2009), The Indian Postcolonial (2010), and The Postcolonial Low Countries (2012). She is the General Editor of the Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures Series.
Reviews
Indeed while Indian Arrivals offers much which to engage, it also makes for very engaging reading. It twins impressive archival research with an imaginative handling of the material. * Victorian Studies *
The range of texts examined is impressive, and includes not only literary works, but also correspondence, journals and memoirs ... [a] carefully researched and beautifully written book [...] which sensitively and empathetically explores the multi-layered meanings of 'arrival'. * Amelia Bona, H-Net Reviews *
At the core of this book, supplying both its motivation and its story is a paradox of the alien and the familiar... A comprehensive and rewarding exploration of a fascinating period in British and Indian literary history * Marie Ni Fhlathuin *
Elleke Boehmer is one of the very few genuine literary all-rounders, as capable of writing excellent fiction as she is works of literary scholarship. Her latest, deservedly praised, novel, Shouting at the Dark (2015), must have been written alongside her latest scholarly work, which examines the writings of a number of Indians who undertook the journey to Britain in the "high imperial decades" of 1870-1915 (250). * Anshuman A. Mondal, International Journal of Postcolonial Studies *
Boehmer is an authority on post-colonial literatures ... this is a luminous literary history. * Times Higher Education *
this is a comprehensive and rewarding exploration of a fascinating period in British and Indian literary history. * Maire Ni Fhlathuin, Review of English Studies *
Awards
Winner of Winner of the 2016 European Society for the Study of English Book Prize for Literature in the English Language.
Book Information
ISBN 9780198744184
Author Elleke Boehmer
Format Hardback
Page Count 302
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 223mm * 148mm * 26mm