Through the annual festival celebrating the Mawlid, or the Prophet Muhammad's birthday, July Blalack explores the mingling multilingual poetry and oral histories from Assa, where Berber/ Amazigh tribes have long mixed with their Sahrawi neighbors.
In the first installment of a MULOSIGE series on concrete poetry, July Blalack explores how the aesthetics of texts can break down linguistic boundaries
July Blalack argues that The Nobel Prize in literature is failing its global audience due to its near exclusive focus on literature written in European languages.
Over the course of the MULOSIGE project, the team has co-ordinated a number of events, as well as overseeing projects and conducting fieldwork. Explore our full list of events, publications and projects here. Publications Title Date Team Member Bibliography ‘Reading Together: Hindi, Urdu, and English village novels’ 2017 Francesca
MULOSIGE attended the conference Science Fiction Beyond the West: Futurity in African and Asian Contexts. Sneha Alexander gives a full summary of the event.
The conference programme for "Reading Together" in Multilingual Contexts Beyond Monolingual Methodologies, to be held in Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale, Naples 11-12 April 2019.
In this piece MULOSIGE researcher July Blalack reflects on her book chapter on the history of Mauritanian novels and how it fits in with the larger project of The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions (OUP 2017; edited by Waïl S. Hassan). The handbook showcases how the Arabic novel has developed in many different
التعدد اللغوي المحلي والفضائات الجغرافية ذات الأهمية: من أجل نهج جديد لدراسة الأدب العالمي يبحث مشروع البحث العلمي بعنوان "التعدد اللغوي المحلي والفضائات الجغرافية ذات الأهمية : من أجل نهج جديد لدراسة الأدب العالمي" في العوالم الأدبية العديدة والمختلفة من وجهة نظر المجتمعات المتعددة اللغات. وتم إختيار مناطق شمال الهند والمغرب العربي والقرن
Locales Multilingües y Geografías Significativas: un Nuevo Enfoque sobre la Literatura Mundial - se centra en los numerosos y a veces fracturados mundos literarios de sociedades multilingües. La elección de los casos del norte de la India, el Magreb y el Cuerno de África se debe a la multiplicidad de tradiciones escritas y orales
In the second of our series on concrete poetry, MULOSIGE's Jack Clift speaks to poet and artist Morten Søndergaard about his latest work, Wall of Dreams
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