Elleke Boehmer

Elleke Boehmer, FRSL, FRHistS (an haife shi a shekara ta 1961) Farfesa ne na wallafe-wallafen duniya a Turanci a Jami'ar Oxford, kuma Farfesa mai kula da Kungiyar a Kwalejin Wolfson . Ita sananniyar marubuciya ce kuma mai kafa a fannin Nazarin Postcolonial, an san ta a duniya saboda bincikenta a cikin wallafe-wallafen mulkin mallaka da na mulkin mallaka, tarihi da ka'idar. Babban wuraren da take sha'awa sun haɗa da wallafe-wallafen daular da juriya ga daular; wallafe-walfinai na Afirka da Asiya ta Kudu na Sahara; zamani; ƙaura da diaspora; mata, namiji, da ainihi; kishin ƙasa; ta'addanci; J. M. Coetzee, Katherine Mansfield, da Nelson Mandela; da rubuce-rubucen rayuwa.

Tare da almara, Boehmer ta kafa suna na kasa da kasa a matsayin mai sharhi kan tasirin da tasirin tarihin mulkin mallaka, musamman a bayan wariyar launin fata Afirka ta Kudu da kuma mulkin mallaka na Burtaniya.

 Tarihin rayuwa 
An haifi Elleke Boehmer ga iyayen Dutch a Durban, Afirka ta Kudu, a cikin abin da ta kira "yanki na balmy interstitial" inda al'adun bakin teku na Tekun Indiya suka hadu a wani birni na Afirka. Ta yi karatu zuwa digiri a Turanci da harsunan zamani a Gabashin Cape, sannan ta biyo bayan shekara mara cikakke na karatun likita. 

A wannan lokacin, Black Consciousness ya rinjayi ta sosai game da jagoran mai fafutuka Steve Biko. Bayan shekara daya da rabi na koyar da Turanci a garin Mamelodi, a waje da Tshwane (tsohon Pretoria) a cikin abin da ke yanzu Gauteng, ta sami Rhodes Scholarship zuwa Jami'ar Oxford. Ta kammala digiri na MPhil a cikin wallafe-wallafen Ingilishi daga 1900 zuwa yanzu, sannan ta biyo bayan rubutun digiri na biyu game da gine-ginen jinsi na al'ummar da suka sami 'yancin kai a Yamma da Gabashin Afirka, duka a Kwalejin St. John. A cikin 1990, ta buga littafinta na farko, bildungsroman Screens Against the Sky . 

Ta koyar a Kwalejin St John sannan kuma a Jami'o'in Exeter, Leeds, da Nottingham Trent kafin a nada ta a matsayin Farfesa Hildred Carlile na wallafe-wallafen Turanci a Royal Holloway, Jami'ar London . Tun daga shekara ta 2007, ta rike Farfesa na wallafe-wallafen duniya a Turanci a Jami'ar Oxford .

A cikin 2019, an zabe ta Fellow na Royal Society of Literature, kuma a cikin wannan shekarar Fellow na Royal Historical Society .  A watan Afrilu na shekara ta 2022 ta zama Fellow na girmamawa na Kwalejin St John, Oxford kuma a watan Nuwamba na shekara ta 2022, an zabi ta zuwa de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde (Dutch Society of Letters). An zabe ta a matsayin mai ba da rahoto na Kwalejin Nazarin Dan Adam ta Australiya a shekarar 2025. 

 Tattaunawar bayan mulkin mallaka da ka'idar 
An ga aikin Boehmer a matsayin tushe ga fannonin mulkin mallaka da nazarin bayan mulkin mallaka, tarihin mulkin mallaka na Burtaniya, da fahimtar al'umma, ba da labari da jinsi. Hanyar da ta bi ta sananne ce game da yadda take bincika tambayoyin bayan mulkin mallaka na gida, na gida, ƙaura da fassara ta hanyar hanyoyin da suka shafi wallafe-wallafen da rubuce-rubuce masu kirkiro. Kamar yadda ta ce a wata hira da Filippo Menozzi, fiction ya ba ta damar yin "tambayoyi game da abin da ba a gani ba da kuma abin da ba za a iya gani ba ... [wanda ke faruwa] a ƙarƙashin radar na sani".

A cikin littafinta na farko, Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors (1995, 2nd edn 2005), Boehmer ya ba da bincike mai ban sha'awa game da samar da wallafe-wallafen Ingilishi na duniya daga shekarun 1830, lokacin da ake kira daular ta biyu, zuwa yanzu, kuma yana nazarin mahimman muhawara, sharuɗɗa, da matsaloli a cikin tunanin adawa da mulkin mallaka da ka'idar mulkin mallaka. Babban gardamarta ita ce cewa maimakon kawai nuna gaskiyar zamantakewa da siyasa, wallafe-wallafen suna da hannu sosai a cikin matakai na mulkin mallaka, decolonisation, da kuma tsarin asalin ƙasa bayan 'yancin kai, duk, a fannoni da yawa, "aikin rubutu".  Bayan bin diddigin ginin rubutu na daular ta hanyar jerin karatun adabi na shahararrun nau'ikan (kamar mishaneri da mai bincike, tarihin tafiya, tarihin kasada, tarihin Gothic, da yaren Gothic, yaren Ost Ostrich, yaren Yaren Yaren Yankin Yaren Yuna Yaren Yurin Yaren Yeren Yaren Yunan Yaren Yunin Yaren Yaron Yaren Yanuwar Yaren Yauyen Yaren Yaro, Yaren Y Yaren Yalin Yaren Yanan Yaren Yaran Yaren Yayan Yaren Yasan Yaren Yakin Yaren Yasar Yaren Y[s] Ta rufe ta hanyar juyawa ga mata na zamani, 'yan asalin, da kuma wallafe-wallafen bayan mulkin mallaka, kuma ta yi muhimmiyar gardama cewa, duk da sukar irin wannan rubuce-rubuce don daidaitawa zuwa kasuwannin Yamma, "tsallakawar ra'ayoyi daban-daban a rubuce-daban na bayan mulkin mallaki na iya aiki a matsayin dabarun adawa da mulkin mallaka". Ta haka ne bayyana matsakaicin matsakaicin tsakanin "cosmopolitan" da "local" ko "context-based" a cikin Postcolonial Studies, Colonial da Postcoloniel Literature yana ba da shawarar sabon shugabanci mai amfani a fagen yayin da yake ba da bayyani na yanzu game da wallafe-wallafen, ka'idoji, da tarihi.

A cikin littafinta na biyu, Empire, the National and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920: Resistance in Interaction (2002), Boehmer ta gina kan tarihin tarihi da tsarin rubutu da aka haɓaka a farkonta. A can, ta ta rage mayar da hankali ga tarihinta zuwa 1890-1920, kuma ta binciki alaƙar "interdiscursive" da "intertextual" tsakanin kungiyoyi daban-daban masu adawa da mulkin mallaka, masu kishin kasa, da na zamani na lokacin.[1] Nazarin shari'arta ya haɗa da goyon bayan Irish ga Boers a Afirka ta Kudu, haɗin gwiwar Irishwoman Sister Nivedita da malamin ruhaniya na Bengali Aurobindo Ghose, rikice-rikice na Sol Plaatje na kishin ƙasa na Afirka ta Kudu. Don haka da nufin jujjuya tsarin mulkin mallaka na al'ada na mulkin mallaka da kuma mulkin mallaka "a gefe" ta hanyar nazarin "yanayin hulɗa' na musayar al'adu da siyasa [...] tsakanin yankuna", wannan littafin ya ba da gudummawa sosai ga "swiveling" na Nazarin Postcolonial zuwa ga jaddadawa ta yanzu akan "ƙananan ƙasashe" (Shu-mei Shih, Francoise Lionnet), "ƙananan zamani" (Neil Lazarus), da sauran yankuna masu alaƙa.[2] Mai sukar postcolonial Stephen Slemon ya yaba da littafin a matsayin "bincike mai kyau na al'adun gargajiya a lokacin babban zamani", ya kara da cewa littafin "ya canza fahimtarmu game da ilimin mulkin mallaka" kuma cewa "Ya kamata a sake zana taswirar ka'idar juriya ta postcoloniel".

''Labaran Mata: Jima'i da Labari a cikin Ƙasar Postcolonial (2005), littafin Boehmer na uku, yana neman shiga tsakani a cikin jawabai na yanzu na postcolonial waɗanda ke bi da jinsi a matsayin "mai ba da gudummawa ga rukunin tseren". Boehmer ya yi jayayya cewa an saba kiran nau'ikan jinsi, musamman na ubanni "don tunanin al'ummomin da suka kasance bayan mulkin mallaka", kuma cewa "gina al'umma a cikin fiction da sauran maganganu suna da bambancin tsarin darajar namiji da mata". Da yake mai da hankali kan Afirka da Kudancin Asiya, kuma yana da alaƙa da masu ilimin kimiyya kamar su Benedict Anderson, Fredric Jameson, Partha Chatterjee, da Frantz Fanon, ta gano irin waɗannan gine-ginen jinsi da rushewa a cikin matani da yawa, da sauransu, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, Arundhati Roy, Manju Kapur, da Tsitsi Dangarembga. Labaran Mata sun sanya batun jinsi da abubuwan da ke tattare da shi a rubuce-rubuce a matsayin tsakiya ga na asalin kasa na mulkin mallaka.

Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction (2008), bincike ne a cikin jagorancin siyasa da kwarewar da ke haifar da tambaya game da dalilin da ya sa labarin Mandela ya kamata ya kasance da muhimmanci a gare mu a yau. Baya ga samar da ɗan gajeren tarihin tarihin gunkin Afirka ta Kudu, wannan Gabatarwa ya tsara ra'ayoyinsa da yawa na ƙasa da na duniya a matsayin "alama ce ta duniya ta adalci na zamantakewa [...], misali mai kyau wanda ke nuna rashin wariyar launin fata da dimokuradiyya, [kuma] babban ɗabi'a".[and] Ta hanyar adadi na Mandela, Boehmer ta haka ne ya fitar da zurfin ɗan adam, hangen nesa na adalci na duniya. An buga wani fadada kuma sabuntawa na biyu na Nelson Mandela a ranar tunawa da 10th anniversary of his death a watan Disamba na 2023. A cikin wannan shekarar, Boehmer ya kuma buga The Audacious Experiment, tarihin Gidauniyar Mandela Rhodes, 2003-2023, wanda aka rubuta tare da Shugaba na farko Shaun Johnson.

Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire (2015) ya binciki rayuwar marubutan Indiya, 'yan siyasa, masu gyarawa, masu bishara, dalibai da ma'aikatan jirgin ruwa da ke tafiya zuwa Burtaniya, a cikin lokacin tsakanin bude Suez Canal da yakin duniya na farko. An ba shi lambar yabo ta European Society for the Study of Literature Prize for Best Book on Literatures in the English Language a cikin 2016.  Ba kamar binciken da ya gabata ba, isowar Indiya tana mai da hankali musamman kan tafiya (wannan al'ada na wucewa inda "masanin gabas ya zama a wani bangare ya bar baya"); kan tasirin tasirin baƙi na Indiya a rayuwar al'adun Victorian; da kuma yanayin gwaji, wanda ba daidai ba ne na gamuwar Burtaniya da Indiya wanda, duk da preconception da rashin fahimta, ya kai ga yanayin tattaunawa. Adadin da aka tattauna a cikin littafin sun hada da lauya Cornelia Sorabji, da kuma masu gyarawa da 'yan siyasa kamar B. M. Malabari da Dadabhai Naoroji . Amma tattaunawar ainihi ta hanyar shayari, kamar yadda Toru Nutt, Sarojini Naidu, Manmohan Ghose, da Rabindranath Tagore suka yi an ba da kulawa ta musamman. Yayinda yake shirya rubutun, Boehmer ya yi aiki a matsayin Co-Investigator a kan aikin bincike na shekaru hudu da ilimi na jama'a wanda Majalisar Bincike ta Arts da Humanities ta tallafawa, mai taken "South Asians Making Britain".

Postcolonial Poetics: 21st-Century Critical Readings (2018) game da ayyukan karatu na zamani ne, da kuma yadda suke tsara fahimtarmu, dangantaka da, da wuri a duniya. Zane a kan wasu litattafan postcolonial daga kudancin Afirka, Yammacin Afirka, da Black da Asiya Birtaniya, kuma suna nuna karatun litattafai, waƙoƙi, litattafi, da kuma bayanan rayuwa / tarihin rayuwa ta sanannun marubuta na zamani, yana gabatar da karatu a matsayin tunani, aikin ƙetare kan iyaka da kuma ganowa. Littattafan postcolonial, Boehmer ya yi jayayya, sun dace da haifar da irin wannan martani saboda halayensu na sha'awa ga gefen, tsinkaye, juyin mulki, da ƙetare. A yin haka, ba wai kawai suna haifar da sabon la'akari ba, har ma suna jan hankalin masu karatu cikin batutuwa kamar juriya, sulhu, rayuwa bayan ta'addanci, da ƙaura, wasu daga cikin gaggawa na zamaninmu.

Baya ga litattafanta, Boehmer ta shirya ko kuma ta hada hannu da wasu sanannun littattafai da yawa na wallafe-wallafen bayan mulkin mallaka da kuma sukar. Rubuce-rubucen Masarauta: Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918 (1998) ya ƙunshi zaɓi mai yawa na fiction, shayari, rubuce-rubi na tafiye-tafiye, abubuwan tunawa, da kuma rubutun da marubuta na Burtaniya, 'yan asalin ƙasar, da mazauna suka yi a lokacin babban daular. Littafin da aka fi sayarwa a Burtaniya Scouting for Boys (2004) na Robert Baden-Powell, zane-zane na ƙungiyar Boy Scout, ya haɗa da gabatarwa mai mahimmanci ta Boehmer da kuma bayanan da ke da zurfi. Max Hastings ya yaba da fitowar a matsayin "karin da ya dace". J.M. Coetzee a cikin Theory and Context (2009), wanda aka shirya tare da Robert Eaglestone da Katy Iddiols, ya ƙunshi mahimman rubutun a kan 2003 South African Nobel Laureate ta hanyar manyan malamai da marubuta. Ta'addanci da Postcolonial (2010), wanda aka shirya tare da Stephen Morton, yana neman, ta hanyar jerin mahimman rubutun, don kawo sabon abu na ta'addanci cikin ikon Nazarin Postcoloniel ta hanyar kimantawa na wallafe-wallafen da al'adu daga zamanin mulkin mallaka zuwa yanzu. Ƙasashen Ƙananan Ƙasashe: Littattafai, Colonialism, da Multiculturalism (2012), wanda aka shirya tare da Sarah de Mul, ya yi haka ga tarihin mulkin mallaka na Dutch da Belgium da kuma wallafe-wallafen, kuma ya buɗe sabon filin Nazarin Postcolonial na Dutch. Shirye-shiryen tashin hankali: Post / Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature and Culture (2018), wanda aka shirya tare da Dominic Davies, ya kawo fahimtar masana kimiyyar zamantakewa da masana tarihi na al'adu cikin tattaunawa mai mahimmanci tare da labaran wallafe-wallafen al'adun birane da ka'idojin samar da al'adun wallafe-wallo, kuma yana bincika sabbin hanyoyin da za a iya fahimtar dangantakar da ke tsakanin tsara birane, sau da yawa tasirin tashin hankali, da wallafe-finai.

Sabon littafin Boehmer, Southern Imagining: Tarihin wallafe-wallafen kudancin kudancin, zai fito daga Princeton University Press a 2025. Binciken da aka yi a kan littafin ya sami goyon baya daga Kwalejin Burtaniya / Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship, 2019-22. Southern Imagining ya binciki yadda muke ganin duniyar ta hanyar bambancin karkata da kuma bangare na sararin samaniya na kudancin, teku da ilimin ƙasa, yana amfani da karatun wallafe-wallafen daga mawaki na Renaissance na Portugal Luís de Camões, ta hanyar Samuel Taylor Coleridge da Mary Shelley, ga marubutan asalin Australiya kamar Jazz Money da Alexis Wright. A cikin littafin, kamar yadda yake a cikin sauran ayyukanta, Boehmer ya sanya rubuce-rubucen wallafe-wallafen a matsayin mahimmanci da mahimmanci ga fahimtar kai da duniya. An buga tarin rubutun da ya danganci, Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere, tare da Katherine Collins, tare da tattara labarun rayuwa na kudanci, abubuwan tunawa da shaidu daga ko'ina cikin nahiyoyin kudanci, a cikin 2024.

An ɗauke shi a matsayin haɗin gwiwa, binciken Boehmer ba wai kawai ya taimaka wajen tsara fannonin tarihin mulkin mallaka na duniya ba, fahimtar kudancin duniya, da Nazarin Postcolonial, amma kuma ya buɗe mahimman sababbin hanyoyi don makomar kowannensu.

 Labari ne 
Boehmer ya gano shi da kalmar "marubuci-mai sukar", wata magana da J. M. Coetzee ya yi niyya don yin aure tare da jaddada ayyukansa guda biyu da na tarayya. Labarai da zargi sun mamaye ta a cikin tandem tun 1990, lokacin da ta shiga aikinta na farko a Jami'ar Leeds watanni biyu bayan buga littafinta na farko. Screens Against the Sky wani bildungsroman ne wanda ke yin rajistar binciken al'umma, da na kai, wanda ƙarni na marubuta da aka haifa bayan Kisan kiyashi na Sharpeville (1960) suka yi kuma suka girma a lokacin Soweto Riots (1976), tare da tunanin Black Consciousness yana tasowa. Rubutun littafin, musamman, daga Doris Lessing da Steve Biko ne. Labari ne na wata budurwa wacce ta gina asalinta ta hanyar labarin, jarida, da rashin amincewa. Kamar mai gabatarwa na Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter (1979), tana kuma da niyyar tabbatar da alkawuranta na siyasa yayin da take neman gamsuwa ta sirri a matsayin mai ba da agaji. Daga cikin sake dubawa da yawa, an bayyana Screens Against the Sky a matsayin "An fara ne mai ban mamaki [...] mai sauri, mai basira [...] da ƙwarewa" (The Sunday Times), "Kyakkyawan kulawa da dangantakar uwa da 'yar" (The Financial Times), da kuma "Kyakyakkyawan fahimta game da al'umma ta juya kanta a fuskar rashi baƙar fata" (Wendy Woods). An sanya littafin a cikin jerin sunayen don Kyautar David Higham a shekarar 1991.

Siyasa ta jinsi da launin fata sun kuma shafi littafin Boehmer na biyu, An Immaculate Figure (1993). Ana kallon jarumi mai suna Rosandra White, farar fata mai tsabta na taken, kuma ana amfani da shi azaman takarda mara kyau wanda jerin masu sha'awar maza, 'ɗan' yan kasuwa na makamai na duniya, da mai juyin juya hali, ke neman yin rajistar abubuwan da suke so da sha'awar su. Kamar yadda yake tare da Screens Against the Sky, An Immaculate Figure ya sami karbuwa sosai daga masu sukar da masu sauraro, ana bayyana shi a matsayin "littafi mai basira sosai" (The Guardian) da kuma wani labari na "mai ban mamaki da basira" (Yammacin Afirka'').

Bloodlines (1997), littafin Boehmer na uku, ya buɗe tattaunawa tsakanin Afirka ta Kudu ta zamani da kuma wani labari a tarihin mulkin mallaka, don bincika taken gaskiya da sulhu. Littafin ya biyo bayan wani ɗan jarida Andrea Hardy wanda abokin aikinsa ya mutu a fashewar bam din Durban, ya haɗa da bincikensa na gaskiya tare da labarin epistolary wanda aka samo daga sa hannun 'yan ƙasar Irish a gefen Afrikaner a kewaye da Ladysmith (1899-1900). Binciken da ta yi ya kai ta ga mahaifiyar mai fashewar bam sannan kuma zuwa cikin danginsa na "Launi" - asalin da, duk da haka, matan biyu suna riƙe da ra'ayoyi daban-daban. Littafin, wanda J. M. Coetzee ya bayyana a matsayin "babban babi mai ban sha'awa da ban sha'a a tarihin adawa da mulkin mallaka", an goyi bayan kyautar marubucin Arts Council, kuma an sanya shi cikin jerin sunayen don kyautar Sanlam.

Mutanen da ke da al'adun launin fata an bayyana su a cikin Bloodlines dangane da dangantakarsu ta tambayoyi da suka gabata. Sun "san tarihin ba madaidaiciya ba ne", wani abu ne mai ban sha'awa wanda aka sake maimaita shi a cikin ilimin kimiyyar archaeology a cikin kogin kogin littafin Boehmer na huɗu. Nile Baby (2008) labari ne na ƙaura da aka kafa a cikin wani yanki na Ingilishi da aka zana a hankali, inda gano kwarangwal na Nubian a cikin kabarin Romawa ya ba da shaida ga tsohuwar amma ba a yarda da ita ba na 'yan Afirka a Turai. Labarin ya ta'allaka ne game da yara biyu waɗanda suka "yantar" jariri mai shekaru ɗari da aka adana a cikin tarin samfurin dakin gwaje-gwaje na makarantarsu. Da yake jin cewa sun tayar da fatalwa, sai suka fara "wani abu mai ban mamaki kuma sau da yawa mai ban tsoro a duk faɗin Ingila" (The Times Literary Supplement) don neman wurin hutawa na gaskiya. A lokacin tafiyarsu jerin manya ne ke taimaka musu wanda kowannensu (ko da yake asalinsa na gaskiya ba a tabbatar da shi ba) ya gano jaririn a matsayin Afirka, kuma wanda ya sanya makomarsa da labarun kansa. Boehmer ya bayyana littafin a matsayin tattaunawa ba kawai tare da marubutan biyu da suka fi muhimmanci a gare ta ba, Joseph Conrad da Chinua Achebe, har ma da matan da suka yi mata tambayoyi game da zubar da ciki. Littafin, wanda aka sake dubawa sosai, an koyar da shi a makarantun Ingilishi.

Halin Boehmer na halayyar mutum tare da siyasa ya haifar da littafinta na biyar kuma na baya-bayan nan, The Shouting in the Dark (2015), wanda ya lashe Kyautar Olive Schreiner a cikin 2019 kuma an jera shi don kyautar Barry Ronge ta Sunday Times. Kamar Screens Against the Sky da Bloodlines, littafin ya gano hanyar wata budurwa ta gano kanta game da tashin hankali na iyali da al'umma. An kafa shi a ciki da kusa da Durban a cikin shekarun 1970s, labarin ya kewaye da dangantakar mai gabatarwa da mahaifinta mai cin zarafi da mahaifiyarta mai rashin tausayi, mara tasiri. Taken ya samo asali ne daga wani muhimmin wuri, na farko wanda aka gani na farko yana ihu cikin sararin samaniya:

A Braemar, da zarar dare ya faɗi, baƙon kuka mai ban mamaki ya tsalle daga bakin mahaifin. An rufe shi da takalmin hayaki na Rothman's Plain, yana zaune a kan verandah kamar yana sa ido, mai ruwan ruwan kasa a kan teburin rattan kusa da shi. Kalmomin da ya taɓa magana da sararin samaniya mai taurari a cikin muryarsa ta yau da kullun, a kan shinge a Durban, yanzu suna fitowa kamar kururuwa, sautin da ke fashewa a huhu na mai shan sigari. 'Mutumin hauka,' ya yi ihu, 'Klootzak! Ci gaba, yanzu, ci gaba! 'Mahaifiyar ta bar shi. Bayan abincin dare sai ta tafi kai tsaye zuwa ɗakin su, ta ja ƙofar da ta rufe a bayanta tare da dannawa.

Yayin da ta girma cikin budurwa, Ella dole ne ta kewaya duka tashin hankali na jiki da nauyin ƙwaƙwalwar lokacin yaƙi, al'adun Dutch, tarihin mulkin mallaka na Turai, da akidar launin fata da take ɗauka don ƙirƙirar ainihin kanta da kuma batun kanta. Da yake tunatar da labarin Yahaya a cikin J. M. Coetzee's Boyhood, labarin Ella na juriya ne a fuskar zalunci, wanda ke nuna ci gaban kirkirar, siyasa, da zurfin sanin ɗan adam. Coetzee da kansa ya bayyana The Shouting in the Dark a matsayin "labari, mai tayar da hankali kamar yadda yake da ban sha'awa, game da gwagwarmayar yarinya don fitowa daga ƙarƙashin nauyin matsin mahaifinta yayin da a lokaci guda ke neman tushe mai aminci a cikin rikice-rikicen halin kirki na Afirka ta Kudu na zamanin wariyar launin fata". Kamar yadda Ashley Davis ta kammala a cikin bita ga The Scotsman, The Shouting in the Dark "littafi ne mai yawa, mai tayar da hankali amma a ƙarshe mai kyakkyawan fata". Wani sabon, Australiya na littafin ya fito ne Buga UWA Publishing a watan Fabrairun 2019, da kuma fassarar zuwa Yaren mutanen Holland, Op de veranda, a cikin 2015 (Cossee). Fassarar Sinanci na Bloodlines da Nile Baby sun bayyana a cikin 2024.

Da yake taƙaita muhimmancin wallafe-wallafen ta, sanannen mai sukar bayan mulkin mallaka Simon Gikandi ya yi jayayya cewa litattafan Boehmer

sau da yawa game da jarumai da aka makale a cikin duniyarsu mai daraja kuma an rufe su daga babbar duniyar siyasa da ke kewaye da su. Wadannan litattafan suna motsawa ne ta hanyar maganganu masu ƙarfi na gazawar kuma halayensu suna gwagwarmaya da iyakokin da duniya ta kafa ko ta sami wahalar suna ko wucewa, duk da haka wanda ba za su iya ganewa ba. A cikin litattafanta, kamar yadda yake a cikin aikinta na ilimi a cikin wallafe-wallafen bayan mulkin mallaka, Boehmer koyaushe yana aiki don shawo kan al'adun laifi wanda ke da alaƙa da marubutan Afirka ta Kudu masu sassaucin ra'ayi da kuma yin tunani ta hanyar yiwuwar yin tunanin baƙar fata kanta wani ɓangare na rubuce-rubucen fari. Duk da yake litattafanta galibi suna game da kewaye da al'adun fararen fata, halayensu suna ƙoƙari su bayyana kansu a kan ƙungiyoyin siyasa da ke da alaƙa da Steve Biko da ƙungiyar baƙar fata ta shekarun 1970s.

Terence Cave ya yi jayayya cewa "tsarin asali mai ban mamaki" na fiction na Boehmer ya haifar da "tasirin ƙonewa" ga mai karatu wanda gaskiyar motsin rai da siyasa ke ci gaba da bayyana.

Boehmer shi ne Farfesa mai kula da hukumar a Kwalejin Wolfson, Oxford . Tana koyar da wallafe-wallafen postcolonial da ka'idar a Faculty of English Language and Literature, Oxford; tana kula da Masters da daliban digiri a can; tana taruwa, tare da Farfesa Ankhi Mukherjee da Pablo Mukherjee, Cibiyar Nazarin Oxford Postcolonial and World Literature; tana cikin allon edita na Interventions: Jaridar Duniya ta Nazarin Postcoloniel, da sauran mujallu; kuma Babban Edita ne na jerin "Oxford Studies in Postcolonials". [ana buƙatar ƙa'ida][<span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2023)">citation needed</span>]

Boehmer ya ɗauki matsayin Darakta na Cibiyar Oxford don Rubuce-rubuce daga Farfesa Dame Hermione Lee a cikin 2017 kuma yanzu shine Babban Darakta. An kafa shi a cikin 2011 a Kwalejin Wolfson, Cibiyar cibiyar ƙasa da ƙasa ce don aiki a kan rubuce-rubucen rayuwa, kuma tana ba da tallafin karatu iri-iri, ɗaliban Doctoral, da Bincike. A can, Boehmer ya taru kuma ya shirya tattaunawa da bita da suka shafi aikin da bincike a cikin jinsi, musamman tare da ambaton Kudancin Duniya. [ana buƙatar ƙa'ida][<span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2023)">citation needed</span>]

Boehmer ya kasance Babban Mai Bincike na aikin "Postcolonial Writers Make Worlds" wanda John Fell ya tallafawa, wanda ya bincika tambayar yadda muke karanta rubutun Black British da British Asian. [mafi kyawun tushe da ake buƙata] Shafin yanar gizon da ke da alaƙa, Writers Make Worlds, yana nuna aikin manyan marubutan Burtaniya. Har ila yau, ita ce mai ba da gudummawa ga cibiyar sadarwa ta TORCH ta Oxford "Race and Resistance in the Long Nineteenth Century". A cikin 2014-16, ta kasance mai karɓar kyautar Leverhulme International Network Grant don cibiyar sadarwar Planned Violence: Post / mulkin mallaka Urban Infrastructures and Literature . Tarin rubutun Planned Violence ya fito ne tare da Palgrave Macmillan a cikin 2018, tare da Dominic Davies. [ana buƙatar ƙa'ida] [<span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2023)">citation needed</span>]
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