Genre

Through a more critical engagement with the role of genre in debates on World Literature, we seek to make visible the different perspectives that become available when we give focused attention towards lesser acknowledged mediums and genres.

The Tigrinya short story in Eritrea: emergence and development of a genre

By |2019-04-12T14:34:58+01:00August 26th, 2017|Categories: Genre, Horn of Africa, Interventions, Translations|Tags: , , , |

Akeder Ahmedin Issa guides us through the history of the short story in Tigrinya from the 1980s to the present, focusing on the parallel developments in Sahl, the centre of the Eritrean independence struggle, and the capital Asmara

SOAS CCLPS Critical Forum – Nadeschda Bachem & Yan Jia

By |2019-04-12T14:37:59+01:00July 6th, 2017|Categories: Genre, Interventions, Popular and Pulp Fiction, Translations|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Opening horizons to the multifacetedness of cultural production on the Asian continent using case studies from Japan and South Korea, China and India

Al-hubb Al-mustaheel / L’amour impossible: Love in a Time of Artificial Wombs

By |2019-04-12T14:40:47+01:00January 29th, 2017|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving, Gender and Queer Studies, Genre, Maghreb, Reading|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Most Mauritanian fiction seems almost obsessively ethnographic but Moussa Ould Ibno breaks away from this trend and uses Science Fiction to comment on ethical questions of reproductive technology and love.

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