NELSON MANDELA, a very short introduction

204pp., illus., map, paperback, Oxford, 2008

"An insightful and eminently engaging analysis from one of postcolonialism's leading scholars. This book sheds a fascinating new light on Mandela's compelling 'magic'." Naomi Wolf

Elleke Boehmer is Professor in World Literatures in English at the University of Oxford. She is the author of the Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors (1995), Empire, the National and the Postcolonial (2002), Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation (2005), as well as of three novels set in South Africa.