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 po ... Show More
Oct 2012
Kipling, the Elton John of his age?
Professor Elleke Boehmer discusses why Kipling's writing, and his poetry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in particular, launched him to international fame across the British Empire. By comparing him to contemporary popular figures such as Elton John and Paul ... Show More
10m 40s
Aug 2012
DH Lawrence: A Postcolonial Writer?
Professor Peter McDonald draws on the work of Indian novelist and literary critic, Amit Chaudhuri, to open up new ways of how we can think about D.H. Lawrence, not only as a Modernist, but also as a Post/Colonial writer. Peter then turns to Lawrence's short story, 'The Woman Who ... Show More
25m 18s
Feb 2024
S10E2: The Open Road
The time I went "messing about in boats", "Blessed Assurance/ U Did the Work", the story of Socrates, Words of Wisdom from the Bible, "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" by Emily Dickinson, and chapter two, "The Open Road", from the Wind in the Willows.
41m 43s