Kamila Shamsie is the acclaimed author of six novels. Born in Pakistan, she now lives in London. In conversation with Elleke Boehmer, she will read from her most recent novel, A God in Every Stone (2014). Mostly set in London and Peshawar in the first decades of the twentieth century, the novel explores ‘the communality [and] contradictions … of empire’ (Tabish Khair, Financial Times). In an opening session, reading groups who have read the novel will be able to offer responses to their experiences of reading it.
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This workshop series on postcolonial reading will be hosted jointly by the Oxford English Faculty and TORCH as the Postcolonial Writing and Theory seminar series in Trinity 2017. The seminars will bring a number of contemporary British writers into conversation with readers to discuss how British postcolonial literature shapes our perceptions of the world today and our identities within it.
All are welcome to the seminars. In the first half of each workshop, readers will be able to offer responses to their experiences of reading the book of the week; in the second, the author will give a reading and engage in conversation with the audience.
Fiction and Human Rights
Race and Resistance across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century
Postcolonial Writers Make Worlds
Contact name: Erica Lombard
Contact email: erica.lombard@ell.ox.ac.uk
Website: Writers Make Worlds
Audience: Open to all
