FatimaBurney

About Fatima Burney

Postdoctoral Researcher for MULOSIGE. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the UCLA in 2017. Fatima’s doctoral dissertation compared Anglophone and Urdu literary romantic movements in the 18th and 19th century, particularly in their reception and representation of ghazal poetry.

Retrospective: MULOSIGE roundtable on Aamir Mufti’s Forget English!
Retrospective: MULOSIGE roundtable on Aamir Mufti’s Forget English!

Interventions, Literary Criticism, Reading, Translations

Retrospective: MULOSIGE roundtable on Aamir Mufti’s Forget English!

By Fatima Burney|2019-04-12T14:32:06+01:00October 30th, 2017|Categories: Interventions, Literary Criticism, Reading, Translations|Tags: Aamir Mufti, Anglophone, Anglophone novel, Brexit, Current Globalising Movement, English, Eurocentric, Forget English, historiography, history of language, language hierarchies, literatures, minority, nationalist politics, novel, roundtable, Trump|

Fatima Burney looks back at our roundtable discussion with Professor Aamir Mufti and explores the consequences of his latest book, Forget English!, for the MULOSIGE project