Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea is an important piece of literature because it encourages us to think about local and transnational literary space.
NourbeSe Philip and destroying the English language
Can the act of recycling the English language liberate those who have been snubbed by the hegemonic power? Is it a way of turning the master’s tools [...] against itself to be used as a device that dismantles the master’s unhinged, socially stratified house?
Gender and Criminality in Bangla Crime Narratives: Late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries
Gender and Criminality in Bangla Crime Narratives: Late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries examines Bangla writings related to crime in the late 19th and early 20th century Bengal in terms of gender.
Somali
Aisha Afrah is a broadcast journalist at BBC World Service, she is a poet and a short fiction writer. Aisha has an M.A. in African Literature from SOAS University. Her interests include translation and multilingualism within the Somali territories. Her poetry explores themes such as home, womanhood, being a refugee and self-love. Dadka deegannada
Arab Novelistic Traditions and the many multilingual realities of Arabic
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
Re-imagining Histories through Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War (Raghu Karnad)
Are nations created by their histories? Raghu Karnad's book 'Farthest Field' problematizes British and Indian memorialisations of WWII.
Writing Rumi in Whitman’s Image: On Coleman Barks, and the Appropriation of Rumi’s Poetry
Barks looks to create a rendition of Rumi that is intelligible to him. This endeavor manifests as a form of Orientalism, however subtle: it is Barks’ project to create Rumi and Rumi's poetry in his own image.
MULOSIGE Syllabus: Multilingual perspectives on gender in world literature
This course explores gender representations, themes and debates in the multilingual literatures of India, the Horn of Africa, and the Arab world. Gender, as a primary socio-cultural category is critical in shaping many aspects related to world literature and its study.
Tmazight (Latin Script)
“Tamyanawt n walsiwn idvrann d isayrurn ijyugrafn lli dar tindi: Afad ad yili yan umnid amaynu v tvuriwin n tskla tamaDlant” Ar issiggil usnfar n urzzu amassan lli igan s wassav “Tamyanawt n walsiwn idvrann d isayrurn ijyugrafn lli dar tindi: Afad ad yili yan umnid amaynu v tvuriwin n tskla tamaDlant” gh igran
Football and Migrant crises: Fatou Diome’s Le Ventre de l’Atlantique
Published in 2003, Fatou Diome’s début novel Le Ventre de l’Atlantique (The Belly of the Atlantic) followed a defining moment in modern Franco-Senegalese history: the 2002 Fifa World Cup.