Elleke Boehmer | Academic Influence

Elleke Boehmer's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings

Elleke Boehmer

Literature

#1315

World Rank

#2702

Historical Rank

Literary Criticism

#162

World Rank

#244

Historical Rank

literature Degrees

Download Badge

Literature

Elleke Boehmer's Degrees

PhD English Literature University of Oxford
Masters English Literature University of Oxford
Bachelors English Literature University of Oxford

Why Is Elleke Boehmer Influential?

(Suggest an Edit or Addition)

According to Wikipedia, Elleke Boehmer, FRSL, FRHistS is Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford, and a Professorial Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College. She is an acclaimed novelist and a founding figure in the field of Postcolonial Studies, internationally recognised for her research in colonial and postcolonial literature and theory. Her main areas of interest include the literature of empire and resistance to empire; sub-Saharan African and South Asian literatures; modernism; migration and diaspora; feminism, masculinity, and identity; nationalism; terrorism; J. M. Coetzee, Katherine Mansfield, and Nelson Mandela; and life writing.

(See a Problem?)

Elleke Boehmer's Published Works

Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works

Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author

Published Works

Colonial and postcolonial literature (1995) (267)
Stories of Women : Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation (2005) (169)
Colonial and Postcolonial Literature ; Migrant Metaphors (2006) (163)
Empire, the national, and the postcolonial, 1890-1920 (2002) (95)
Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire (2015) (84)
Not Saying Sorry, Not Speaking Pain: Gender Implications in Disgrace (2002) (66)
Networks and Traces (2012) (47)
Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918 (1998) (43)
Terror and the postcolonial (2009) (36)
Transfiguring: Colonial body into postcolonial narrative (1993) (35)
Writing South Africa: Endings and new beginning: South African fiction in transition (1998) (34)
INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL ISSUE Postcolonial Studies and Transnational Resistance (2002) (25)
Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction (2008) (23)
Routledge Handbook of South–South Relations (2018) (23)
ACHEBE AND HIS INFLUENCE IN SOME CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN WRITING (2009) (23)
A postcolonial aesthetic: repeating upon the present (2010) (20)
Postcolonial Writing and Terror (2007) (19)
Terror and the postcolonial: a concise companion (2009) (18)
East Is East and South Is South: The Cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy (2000) (18)
Stories of women and mothers: Gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa (2017) (16)
Politics of the Female Body: Postcolonial Women Writers of the Third World, by Ketu H. Katrak (2007) (15)
The postcolonial Low Countries : literature, colonialism, and multiculturalism (2012) (15)
The Master's Dance to the Master's Voice: Revolutionary Nationalism and the Representation of Women in the Writing of Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1991) (14)
Global and textual webs in an age of transnational capitalism; or, what isn't new about Empire (2004) (13)
Reading between life and work: reflections on ‘J.M. Coetzee’ (2016) (13)
Questions of neo-orientalism (1998) (12)
Tropes of Yearning and Dissent: The Troping of Desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga (2003) (12)
Introduction: Terror and the Postcolonial (2009) (12)
The Indian postcolonial : a critical reader (2011) (11)
Politics of the Female Body: Postcolonial Women Writers of the Third World (review) (2007) (11)
Beside the West: postcolonial women writers, the nation, and the globalised world (2004) (10)
Postcolonial Studies in the Context of the ‘Diasporic’ Netherlands (2009) (10)
Literature, planning and infrastructure: Investigating the southern city through postcolonial texts (2015) (10)
Scouting for boys : a handbook for instruction in good citizenship (2004) (9)
Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructures, Literature and Culture (2018) (9)
The World and the Postcolonial (2014) (8)
ROBBEN ISLAND (2005) (8)
Permanent Risk: When Crisis Defines a Nation’s Writing (2012) (7)
Where We Belong: South Africa as a Settler Colony and the Calibration of African and Afrikaner Indigeneity (2011) (7)
Of Goddesses and Stories: Gender and a New Politics in Achebe's 'Anthills of the Savannah' (2017) (7)
Postcolonial terrorist The example of Nelson Mandela (2005) (7)
Stories of Women (2005) (7)
Coetzee in Context and Theory (2011) (7)
Making Britain: discover how South Asians shaped the nation, 1870-1950 (2010) (7)
Coetzee's queer body (2005) (6)
Postcolonialism and Autobiography (review) (2000) (6)
Versions of Yearning and Dissent: The Troping of Desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga (2005) (6)
Introduction: new representations out of neglected spaces: changing paradigms in South African writing (1995) (5)
Differential Publics—Reading (in) the Postcolonial Novel (2017) (5)
Postcolonial Poetics: 21st-Century Critical Readings (2018) (5)
The 1990s: An increasingly postcolonial decade (2015) (5)
J.M. Coetzee in context and theory (2009) (5)
Screens Against the Sky (1990) (4)
The world, the text and the author: Coetzee and untranslatability (2016) (4)
Mansfield as Colonial Modernist: Difference Within (2011) (3)
Towards a Neerlandophone postcolonial studies (2014) (3)
Postcolonialism and South–South relations (2018) (3)
Approaches to teaching Coetzee's Disgrace and other works (2014) (3)
An Immaculate Figure (1993) (3)
Mothers of Africa : representations of nation and gender in post-colonial African literature (1991) (3)
Modernism and colonialism (2011) (3)
Postcolonial Poetics: J. M. Coetzee's Australian Realism (2011) (3)
Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation (2005) (2)
‘The master’s dance to the master’s voice’ (2017) (2)
Editorial: 'Cultures of Terror' (2007) (2)
Circulating Forms: The Jingo Poem at the Height of Empire and Beyond (2011) (2)
The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marechera (2017) (2)
The Cambridge History of South African Literature: Perspectives on the South AfricanWar (2012) (2)
How to Feel Global: The Modern, the Global and the World (2012) (2)
Intentional dissonance: Leonard Woolf’s The Village in the Jungle (1913) (2015) (2)
Off-White: Creolite and Hidden 'Difference' under Apartheid (2003) (2)
Visualizing the Mental City: The Exploration of Cultural and Subjective Topographies by Contemporary Performance Artists in Johannesburg (2016) (2)
Chinua Achebe: A Tribute (2014) (2)
30@30: the future of literary thinking (2016) (2)
What will they read now (1994) (2)
Mandela and Beyond: Thinking New Possibility in the 21st Century (2019) (2)
The Global Histories of Books (2017) (2)
‘Able to Sing their Songs’: Solomon Plaatje's Many-Tongued Nationalism1 (2005) (1)
Revisiting Resistance Literature—Writing in Juxtaposition (2018) (1)
A War of White Savages, and Other Stories: Introduction (1999) (1)
At Once A-sexual and Anal: Baden-Powell and the Boy Scouts (2007) (1)
Interventions in Adolescent Lives in Africa Through Story (2021) (1)
The south in the world (2021) (1)
The Worlding of the Jingo Poem (2011) (1)
Introduction: Tracing the Visible and the Invisible through African Literature, Publishing, Film, and Performance Art (2013) (1)
The Transformative Force of the Postcolonial Line: Protest Poetry and the Global Short Story (2018) (1)
The hero’s story: The male leader’s autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism (2017) (1)
‘The master's dance to the master's voice’: revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o (2005) (1)
WITHOUT THE WEST: 1990s SOUTHERN AFRICAN AND INDIAN WOMEN WRITERS—A CONVERSATION? (2000) (1)
Tropes of yearning and dissent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga1 (2005) (1)
Anglophone Indian Women Writers, 1870–1920 by Ellen Brinks (review) (2016) (1)
Doubling the Writer (2010) (1)
Becoming UnDutch: "Wil je dat? Kun je dat?" (2012) (1)
Passages to England (2015) (1)
The Zigzag Lines of Tentative Connection: Indian-British Contacts in the Late Nineteenth Century (2013) (1)
Publishing, the Curriculum and Black British Writing Today (2019) (1)
Storying ourselves: Black Consciousness thought and adolescent agency in 21st-century Africa (2021) (1)
Speaking from the periphery (1989) (0)
‘But Transmitters’?1: The Interdiscursive Alliance of Aurobindo Ghose and Sister Nivedita (2005) (0)
In)visibility in African culture (2013) (0)
Without the West: 1990s southern African and Indian woman writers - a conversation? (1999) (0)
4. Influences and interactions (2008) (0)
Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame (2005) (0)
‘Immeasurable Strangeness’ between Empire and Modernism: (2005) (0)
On Beyond the Representational Binary: Coetzee (and the Women) Take Wing (2019) (0)
Fatality (2020) (0)
Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation (2005) (0)
Response to Michela Borzaga, “Postcolonial Poetics?” (2020) (0)
A Postcolonial Aesthetic: Aspiration or Anxiety? (2007) (0)
India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs. Santanu Das. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xiii+465. (2019) (0)
Book Reviews (2008) (0)
Concepts of Exchange—Poetics in Postcolonial, World, and World-Systems Literatures (2018) (0)
Response to Ahdaf Soueif (2016) (0)
Conclusion: Defining the nation differently (2017) (0)
Poetics and Persistence: Chinua Achebe’s Shaping Influence (2018) (0)
Skin: From ‘work in progress’ (2004) (0)
Ben Okri, My Neighbor and Friend (2016) (0)
Daughters of the house (2017) (0)
African and African American Histories in Europe: Joining the Conversation (2016) (0)
Postcolonial Writing, Terror, and Continuity: Okri, D’Aguiar, NourbeSe Philip, Shire (2018) (0)
World literature in motion: Institution, recognition, location (2021) (0)
Water to Land (2008) (0)
Anti-imperial Interaction across the Colonial Borderline: Introduction (2005) (0)
Writing the Indian Ocean in selected fiction by Joseph Conrad, Amitav Ghosh, Abdulrazak Gurnah and Lindsey Collen (2014) (0)
The View from Empire (2016) (0)
Mothers of Africa (1991) (0)
Specters of poverty and sources of hope in the novels of Amitav Ghosh and Rohinton Mistry (2012) (0)
6. Masculine performer (2008) (0)
2. Scripting a life: the early years (2008) (0)
Patrick Colm Hogan. Colonialism and Cultural Identity: Crises of Tradition in the Anglophone Literatures of India, Africa, and the Caribbean. (2001) (0)
Re-Making Britishness: Indian Contributions to Oxford University, c.1860-1930 (2011) (0)
Why I Write (1984) (0)
Transcolonialism: The future of Postcolonial Studies from a Comparative Perspective (2005) (0)
When There Is No House to Visit (2020) (0)
Virtual frontiers and the technological state: contemporary American narratives in a global context (2012) (0)
Repetitive Poetics—When Crisis Defines a Nation’s Writing. Contemporary South African Novels (2018) (0)
Foreword: Literary politics and perception: Moving beyond representation (2019) (0)
The Mind in Motion (2018) (0)
India the Starting Point: Cross-National Self-Translation in 1900s Calcutta (2005) (0)
1. Mandela: story and symbol (2008) (0)
The profits of the past: nostalgic white writing of post-apartheid South Africa (2015) (0)
The last Romantics: Kipling and Yeats, a comparative biography 1865-1906 (2014) (0)
Writing southern spaces: or, Grappling with Patriarchy in Darkest Africa: Elleke Boehmer in conversation with Gillian Dooley and others (2019) (0)
The Spasm of the Familiar (2015) (0)
Postcolonial Poetics—A Score for Reading (2018) (0)
Editorial (2004) (0)
Mandela, Nelson (1918–2013) (2015) (0)
Report: 27 April 1994 (1994) (0)
Generic insistence: Joseph Conrad and the document in selected British and American modernist fiction (2013) (0)
17. When There Is No House to Visit (2020) (0)
Kunapipi 21 (3) 1999 Full Version (1999) (0)
The Necessity of ‘Terror’ (2009) (0)
Ethics and recognition in postcolonial literature: reading Amitav Ghosh, Caryl Phillips, Chimamanda Adichie and Kazuo Ishiguro (2012) (0)
Reviews (2003) (0)
Excavating diaspora: an interview discussing Elleke Boehmer's novel nile baby (2013) (0)
Coda—Indian Salients (2015) (0)
In South Africa at election time (1994) (0)
Introduction: The City Always Wins (2018) (0)
(In)Visibility in African Cultures: Special Issue of Research in African Literatures (2013) (0)
Empire and modern writing (2005) (0)
The Book of Jakarta: A City in Short Fiction (2022) (0)
The Zigzag Lines of Tentative Connection (2012) (0)
Edwardian Extremes and Extremists, 1901–13 (2015) (0)
Minor Transnationalism (review) (2006) (0)
Beside the west (2017) (0)
The Text in the World, the World through the Text: Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys (2014) (0)
Story and Interview (1989) (0)
5. Sophiatown sophisticate (2008) (0)
Review Forum (2013) (0)
Tropes of yearning and dissent (2017) (0)
The Middle Eastern novel in English: literary transnationalism after orientalism (2013) (0)
Time and distance (2021) (0)
Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons (2017) (0)
Faraway Close (2021) (0)
7. Spectres in the prison garden (2008) (0)
Exploring Intersections between Creative and Critical Writing: An Interview with Elleke Boehmer (2018) (0)
On the outside Looking In(dian): Indian Women Writers at Home and Abroad by Phillipa Kafka (review) (2022) (0)
BOOKS (2013) (0)
Questions of Postcolonial Poetics (2018) (0)
Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses, Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1899–1939 (2011) (0)
East to West (2012) (0)
Exploring Intersections between Creative and Critical Writing: (2018) (0)
3. Growth of a national icon: later years (2008) (0)
BOOKS: Review Forum (2013) (0)
Book Reviews (2003) (0)
East is east: Where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist – the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy (2017) (0)

This paper list is powered by the following services:

Other Resources About Elleke Boehmer

en.wikipedia.org

What Schools Are Affiliated With Elleke Boehmer?

Elleke Boehmer is affiliated with the following schools:

Image Attributions

Image Source for Elleke Boehmer