Elleke Boehmer

A new compass for global reading: looking at the world from the far southern latitudes. A northern viewpoint is most often the default, while the south—the far southern latitudes occupied by Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, and southern Africa, among others—seems far away and ignorable. In Southern Imagining, Elleke Boehmer offers an alternative perspective, using literary, scientific, and cultural material to...

These are stories of people caught up in a world that tilts seductively, sometimes dangerously, between south and north, between ambition and tradition, between light and dark. Her characters are poised to leave or on the point of return—often caught in limbo, haunted by their histories and veering between possibilities. An African student in England longs for her desert home,...