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Sofia Aatkar

Languages and Literature, Nottingham Trent University

Thesis title:

"Strangers to these shores; strangers to themselves”: An Exploration of Caribbean-British Travel Writing

My thesis focuses on post-1948 anglophone Caribbean-British travel narratives and explores to what extent travel writers of Caribbean descent work within or against the genre’s imperial inheritance. Some of my primary texts include: Edgar Mittelholzer’s With a Carib Eye (1958), Caryl Phillips’s The European Tribe (1987), Amryl Johnson’s Sequins for a Ragged Hem (1988), Ferdinand Dennis’s Behind the Frontlines: Journey into Afro-Britain (1988), Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place (1988) and ‘On Seeing England for the First Time’ (1991). My research sits at the intersection of travel writing studies and postcolonial literary theory.

Research Area

  • English Language & Literature
  • Languages and Literature

Publications

BLOG POSTS In collaboration with Richard Bromhall, 'Critical Interventions: Home, Belonging and Krisis', Postcolonial Studies Centre at NTU (2016) < https://postcolonialstudiescentre.wordpress.com/2016/11/30/critical-interventions-home-belonging-and-krisis-by-sofia-aatkar-and-richard-bromhall/ > 'Response: Of Warriors and Soldiers: Explorations of the Noble Warrior in Contemporary New Zealand Literature', Postcolonial Studies Centre at NTU (2016) < https://postcolonialstudiescentre.wordpress.com/2016/04/27/of-warriors-and-soldiers-explorations-of-the-noble-warrior-in-contemporary-new-zealand-literature-and-culture-ulla-ratheiser-by-sofia-aatkar-26-april-2016/ > 'Response: Africa in Oceana: Thinking Besides The Subaltern', Postcolonial Studies Centre at NTU (2015) < https://postcolonialstudiescentre.wordpress.com/2015/12/08/responseafrica-in-oceania-thinking-besides-the-subaltern-sofia-aatkar/ > '"To be static is to be dead": An Interview with Jacob Ross', Peepal Tree Press (2018) < http://www.peepaltreepress.com/blog/news-authors/be-static-be-dead-interview-jacob-ross > ARTICLES Aatkar, Sofia, 'Behind the Frontlines: Journey into Afro-Britain', Literary Encyclopedia (2016) < http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35705 > Aatkar, Sofia, 'Ferdinand Dennis', Literary Encyclopedia (2016) < https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13667 > Butler, Rebecca, and Sofia Aatkar, 'From “colour and flair” to “a corporate view”: evolutions in guidebook writing: an interview with Jenny Walker', Studies in Travel Writing, 21.2 (2017), 208-220

Conferences

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