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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 postcolonial women writers are less well-known than their male counterparts.

Date Published: 08 October 2012
Contributors:
Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies
In Collection(s): Colonial Writers, Contemporary Writers, Celebrating women’s writing: the pen in their hands
Keywords:
postcolonial, Women, Zoe Wicomb, South Africa, colonization, imperialism, empire writes back, South Asia, #greatwriters
Source:
University of Oxford Podcasts
Cite: Postcolonial Women Writers by Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies at http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via http://writersinspire.org/content/postcolonial-women-writers. Published on 08 October 2012. Accessed on 31 October 2025.

If reusing this resource please attribute as follows: Postcolonial Women Writers (http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/) by Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies, licensed as Creative Commons BY-NC-SA (2.0 UK).