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Letters from Khartoum is a partial biography of Scottish educator, D.R. Ewen, who taught English Literature at the University of Khartoum from the time of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium through to Independence and the October 1964 Revolution. The administrative history of the then unified nation – North (Middle Eastern) and South (African) – makes the Sudan a unique setting to explore the workings of colonial education. The purpose of teaching English literature there was to remake the Muslim Sudanese of the North as the proxy agents of British culture who would administrate the first independent nation in Africa. But Ewen also was remade in the process – by his relationships with his students and colleagues, and by his own teaching innovations.
Price: $193.00
Pages: 450
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Postcolonial Lives
Publication Date:
17 June 2021
ISBN: 9789004461093
Format: Hardcover
McDougall’s book defies easy generic classification; it draws upon a rich variety of primary and secondary sources: photographs and postcards; government and diplomatic papers; journalism, university archives, and scholarly literature; and, most importantly, Ewen’s own writings, which include lecture notes, diaries, poetry, and his voluminous correspondence – notably to his mother, Agnes. […] Letters from Khartoum: D.R Ewen is a fascinating and rewarding read. The book makes an original and important con tribution to postcolonial studies, and it is to be hoped that subsequent volumes in the series Postcolonial Lives, of which Letters from Khartoum, D.R Ewen is the inaugural volume, will further develop this refreshingly different perspective on the field.
- Jamie S. Scott, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, September 2024.
- Jamie S. Scott, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, September 2024.
Russell McDougall, Emeritus Professor, University of New England (Australia), has published widely on African, Australian and Caribbean Literatures. His most recent book, coedited with Anne Collett and Sue Thomas, is Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather: Typhoons, Hurricanes, and Cyclones (2017).