Background
Elleke Deirdre Boehmer was born on November 14, 1961, in Durban, South Africa. She is a daughter of Nederlands emigrants Antony Gerhardus Boehmer and Fredrika ten Tusschedé.
Drosty Rd, Grahamstown, 6139, South Africa
Boehmer graduated from Rhodes University as a Bachelor of Arts with honors in 1983.
Oxford OX1 2JD, United Kingdom
In 1987 Boehmer became a Master of Philosophy at Oxford University, she received her Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oxford University in 1990, in 1988 she served there from 1988 to 1990.
Church Rd, Ehrlich Park, Bloemfontein, 9301, South Africa
Boehmer began her career as a lecturer at Vista University, staying there for a year from 1984.
Exeter, Devon Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Boehmer worked at the University of Exeter, for a year from 1987.
Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
Boehmer joined the University of Leeds as a lecturer, becoming a senior lecturer later, she served at that educational institution from 1990 to 1999.
50 Shakespeare St, Nottingham NG1 4FQ, United Kingdom
Boehmer has been working as a professor at Nottingham Trent University since 1999.
Swindon, United Kingdom
Boehmer has been serving as a member of the panelist at Arts and Humanities Research Board in England since 2001.
(Set in South Africa in the late seventies, this novel des...)
Set in South Africa in the late seventies, this novel describes the relationship between a mother and daughter, locked in a confined and self-absorbed world of domestic tension, until Annemarie starts work at a clinic for blacks.
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1990
(An Immaculate Figure is the story of the guileless model ...)
An Immaculate Figure is the story of the guileless model and ‘good girl’ Rosandra White who is successively drawn into the orbit of three powerful men: her uncle the wheeler-dealer Bass, the arms trader Michaelis and the revolutionary Ahmed.
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1993
(Resistance in Interaction; This book explores the politic...)
Resistance in Interaction; This book explores the political co-operations and textual connections which linked anti-colonial, nationalist, and modernist groups and individuals in the British empire.
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2002
(Migrant Metaphors; Colonial and Postcolonial Literature i...)
Migrant Metaphors; Colonial and Postcolonial Literature is the leading critical overview of and historical introduction to colonial and postcolonial literary studies.
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2005
(Networks of British Empire; Indian Arrivals 1870-1915: Ne...)
Networks of British Empire; Indian Arrivals 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire explores the rich and complicated landscape of intercultural contact between Indians and Britons on British soil at the height of empire, as reflected in a range of literary writing, including poetry and life-writing.
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2015
Elleke Deirdre Boehmer was born on November 14, 1961, in Durban, South Africa. She is a daughter of Nederlands emigrants Antony Gerhardus Boehmer and Fredrika ten Tusschedé.
Boehmer graduated from Rhodes University as a Bachelor of Arts with honors in 1983. Four years later she became a Master of Philosophy at Oxford University. She finally received her Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oxford University in 1990.
Boehmer began her career as a lecturer at Vista University, staying there for a year from 1984. She worked at the University of Exeter, for a year from 1987. In 1988 she moved to Oxford University, serving there from 1988 to 1990. She joined the University of Leeds as a lecturer, becoming a senior lecturer later, she served at that educational institution from 1990 to 1999. She has been working as a professor at Nottingham Trent University since 1999.
Additionally, Boehner served as a visiting professor at the University of Adelaide in Australia. She has been serving as a member of the panelist at Arts and Humanities Research Board in England since 2001. She was a consultant to Swedish Research Council during some time.
She was also a series editor of Oxford University Press.
Her novels include such titles as Sirens Against the Sky and An Immaculate Figure. Boehmer’s first novel, Sirens Against the Sky, was published in Great Britain in 1990. The novel focuses on the lives of two women, a mother and her adolescent daughter, living on the outskirts of a small South African city. Boehmer went on to write a second novel, An Immaculate Figure, in 1993. Altered State?: Writing and South Africa, a study of South African literature, was edited by Boehmer with two colleagues and published in 1994.
In 1995 Boehmer’s work of literary criticism, Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors, was published by Oxford University Press. A Canadian Literature reviewer was impressed by the volume’s ambitious scope and by the “daunting amount of reading” that Boehmer had demonstrated.
Her other writings include Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918, Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920, Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Nile Baby, Bloodlines, Indian Arrivals, Stories of Women and Nelson Mandela.
(Networks of British Empire; Indian Arrivals 1870-1915: Ne...)
2015(An Immaculate Figure is the story of the guileless model ...)
1993(Set in South Africa in the late seventies, this novel des...)
1990(Resistance in Interaction; This book explores the politic...)
2002(Migrant Metaphors; Colonial and Postcolonial Literature i...)
2005(Elleke Boehmer's work on the crucial intersections betwee...)
2013(Nile Baby is a story about two young friends who discover...)
2009(An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918)
1998(A Very Short Introduction)
2008Boehmer is a member of European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies.
Boehmer married Mark Hirst on June 24, 1988, the couple divorced on October 10, 1992. Steven John Matthews became Boehmer's second husband on December 5, 1994. Boehmer has two children - Thomas Jacob Matthews Boehmer and Samuel Arnon Matthews Boehmer.