Digital Humanities and Archiving

As we aim to highlight the various routes of literary circulation that World Literature encompasses, the digital sphere is undoubtedly one of the most recent though potentially vibrant platforms of exchange.

Friends, Caretakers, Countrymen: Shabḳhūn and the Reconciliations of Urdu Modernism

By |2021-04-01T11:28:27+01:00April 1st, 2021|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving, Journals, Literary Criticism|Tags: |

Zain Mian is a literary translator and researcher of Urdu literature, currently a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Friends, Caretakers, Countrymen: Shabḳhūn and the Reconciliations of Urdu Modernism In April 1966, the new modernist journal Shabḳhūn (or Night-Attack) broke onto the Indian literary scene.

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“La France, c’est moi”: Love and Infatuation with the Occident

By |2021-04-01T11:01:39+01:00April 1st, 2021|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving|Tags: |

Zahia Smail Salhi is Chair of Modern Arabic Studies at the University of Manchester. She served as Judge of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2013, and the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation in 2016. She acted as Co-Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World

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Amazigh Literature in Translation: Launch Recording

By |2021-03-31T14:16:27+01:00March 31st, 2021|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving|Tags: |

This recording was taken at the final event in the MULOSIGE 2020 -21 Webinar series. Learn more about our corpus of translated Amazigh Literature here. Amazigh Literature in Translation: Launch Event This final event of the MULOSIGE research project showcases the corpus of Moroccan Amazigh oral and written literature translated

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Multilingual and Multimedia Amazigh/Berber Literary Space

By |2021-03-31T12:07:32+01:00March 31st, 2021|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving, Translations|Tags: |

Daniela Merolla is Professor in Berber Literature and Art at the INALCO, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Sorbonne Paris-Cité). She taught and researched African Literatures and Media at Leiden University (NL) until 2015. Her research focuses on African oral literary productions as well as on written literatures and media in African and

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Literary Activism, Ecologies of Production and Networks of Practice in Contemporary Africa Webinar

By |2021-02-15T10:55:52+01:00February 15th, 2021|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving, Horn of Africa|Tags: |

Madhu Krishnan is Professor of African, World and Comparative Literatures at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Writing Spatiality in West Africa: Colonial Legacies in the Anglophone/Francophone Novel (2018), Contingent Canons: African Literature and the Politics of Location (2018), and Contemporary African Literature in English: Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications (2014). She

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Blogging from Egypt: Digital Literature, Teresa Pepe

By |2020-11-13T14:07:06+01:00November 13th, 2020|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving, Podcast|Tags: |

“Blogging from Egypt: Digital Literature” Teresa Pepe considers how Egyptian blogs can be read as world literature; recognising their literary and political innovations.

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Born in the Village, Roaming the World, Sara Grewal

By |2020-11-13T13:58:45+01:00November 13th, 2020|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving, Podcast|Tags: |

Sara Grewal (MacEwan University) discusses how Canadian Sikh hip hop artists “translate” the anti-majority racial politics expressed in Black American hip hop into an appropriation of the genre that captures the unique context of the Canadian Sikh diaspora.

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Multilingual Literature: Review and Publish

By |2020-04-29T10:57:23+01:00April 27th, 2020|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving, Events|

The 'Multilingual Literature Review and Publish Project is an opportunity for readers of world literature to contribute to the MULOSIGE website with reviews or blogs on texts in languages other than English, particularly those from the Global South.

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Magazines and World Literature Online

By |2020-04-01T16:04:26+01:00April 1st, 2020|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving, Journals|

Professor Francesca Orsini is the Principal Investigator of the MULOSIGE project, and leader of the North India case study. She is Professor of Hindi and South Asian Literature, as well as Chair of the CCLPS. Her research interests range from modern and contemporary Hindi literature to the multiligual history of literature in early modern North

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This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 670876).


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