Concrete Poetry: Morten Søndergaard’s Wall of Dreams
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
MULOSIGE Syllabus: Comparative Colonial Pedagogies
MULOSIGE's first course illustrates both shared and divergent trajectories in colonial education in the Maghreb and North India.
English an African Language? Hay’ khona! (Nope)
In a response to recent articles in the Journal of African Cultural Studies, Wanga Gambushe (SOAS) asks whether English can be an African language from a particularly South African perspective
‘What isn’t World Literature?’ David Damrosch and the IWL
At the Institute for World Literature 2017, the programme's founder David Damrosch offered pertinent and timely critiques of world literature to which the MULOSIGE project has begun to respond
Hamlet at Helsingør: performance across time, space and language
Watching 'Hamlet Live' at Kronborg Castle creates a sense of both familiarity and distance that helps us think about how literatures travel and come to be shared
Reading group with S. Shankar (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)
S. Shankar's work challenges reductive understandings of ‘world’ as presented in theories of ‘world literature’ and critiques conceptualisations of ‘literature’ as influenced by Western ideas of the ‘literary’
Reading group with Javed Majeed (King’s College London)
Javed Majeed joined us for an informative and enjoyable reading group where we discussed his work on the Linguistic Survey of India and its superintendent, George Grierson.
Qurratulain Hyder’s The Nautch Girl: A doubly multilingual text
What happens when a text from 17th century India passes through a double translation over the next two centuries? Qurratulain Hyder's translation of Hasan Shah's The Nautch Girl reveals some of the changes that occur when texts move across time and space.