Letters from Khartoum. D.R. Ewen

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).

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.

• AcknowledgementsA Note on the TextHistorical NomenclatureList of FiguresIntroduction1951 – Native Quarter1952 – Crossing the Bar1953 – Serpent’s Tooth1954 – Assassins at the Tea Party1955 – Mutiny1956 – Crisis1957 – Birds over the Bottomless Lake1958 – An End to Democracy1959 – Bogged on the Runway1960 – The Year of Africa1961 – Cold War1962 – Backwater Paradise1963 – The Widening Gyre1964 – Revolution1965 – LeavingAfterwordA Who’s Who of Ewen’s SudanWorks CitedIndex