Ways of Being Free

Iconic migrant writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Salman Rushdie and Ben Okri use their fictional worlds to articulate the ways in which existential ＂nervous conditions,＂ caused by violent postcolonial history, drive individuals to rework the critical notions of freedom, authenticity and community. This existential thread in their works has been ...

Adnan Mahmutovic is a Bosnian-Swedish lecturer of literature in English, cultural studies, and creative writing at the Department of English, Stockholm University. Although his primary work has been focused on the postcolonial immigrant writers from South-East Asia and Africa, such as Rushdie, Ondaatje, Okri, and Khair, he has published academic and popular scientific articles on Coleridge, Von Trier, and some contemporary popular culture. His fiction has been anthologised and collected in How to Fare Well and Stay Fair (Salt publ), and his novel Thinner than a Hair came out with Cinnamon Press in 2010. He is currently the writer in residence at Stockholm University.