This poem was translated by Professor Carlo Coppola as part of the MULOSIGE Translations project. You can explore our collection of Urdu Poetry here. Phir bhayānak tīragī men̲ / Again, we came in a horrible darkness Again, we came in horrible darkness; We were deceived by the sounding of the hour.
This poem was translated by Professor Carlo Coppola as part of the MULOSIGE Translations project. You can explore our collection of Urdu Poetry here. Āfāq nihān̲ hai / If the horizon is hidden If the horizon is hidden, then let’s speak of the limitation of the glance. If the
This poem was translated by Professor Carlo Coppola as part of the MULOSIGE Translations project. You can explore our collection of Urdu Poetry here. Fikr / Thought In night’s expansive silence, When the moon feels drowsy And branches bend with the weight of flowers Create an atmosphere of lullabies; . When,
This poem was translated by Professor Carlo Coppola as part of the MULOSIGE Translations project. You can explore our collection of Urdu Poetry here. Bahār āʼegī / Spring Will Come I complain not only of the garden's destruction, But even find very few stars in the sky. Be it an evening
This poem was translated by Professor Carlo Coppola as part of the MULOSIGE Translations project. You can explore our collection of Urdu Poetry here. Bārish / Rain Last night rain knocked so incessantly on the prison roof That its sound, becoming an echo. cut through the stagnant darkness Spreading and contracting
This poem was translated by Professor Carlo Coppola as part of the MULOSIGE Translations project. You can explore our collection of Urdu Poetry here. Andekhā maḥbūb / Unseen Beloved When, hidden among thick branches, some sparrow sings, Why does a spark of longing flare up in my heart? When I see
Cette conférence s’assigne comme but d’explorer selon une perspective comparée la manière dont l’activisme des écrivains négocie la poétique et la politique dans trois régions des Pays du Sud: le Maghreb, la Corne de l’Afrique et le nord de l’Inde.
In this conference, we argue that oral traditions are a vital component of world literature, and not only as an antecedent to written literatures, but in their own right. The conference seeks to move past the characterisation of oral literature as traditional, locally constrained, and less aesthetically complex than written literatures. We will show instead that oral traditions are a modern and dynamic form of literary expression everywhere around the world, sometimes able to circulate across long distances.
This reading list was contributed by Dr Anna Bernard and challenges the choice between nation and transnationalism that has often seemed central to theorizations of world literature, but which has tended to bypass internationalist networks of anti-colonial writers working within discrete national contexts.
Professor Francesca Orsini and Laetitia Zecchini compiled Part II of the Special Issue: The Locations of (World) Literature: Perspectives from Africa and South Asia - Worlding Genres and Refractions. Orsini, Francesca and Letitia Zecchini (eds.) Special Issue: The Locations of (World) Literature: Perspectives from Africa and South Asia - Part II: Worlding Genres
