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Elleke Boehmer

Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford, and the author of Southern Imagining: A Literary and Cultural History of the Far Southern Hemisphere.

Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford, and the author of Southern Imagining: A Literary and Cultural History of the Far Southern Hemisphere.

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