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

Digital Humanities and Archiving, Journals, Literary Criticism

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

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

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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Congolese Literature as World, or rather Planetary, Literature?
Congolese Literature as World, or rather Planetary, Literature?

Horn of Africa, Literary Criticism

Congolese Literature as World, or rather Planetary, Literature?

By admin_mulosige|2020-07-01T11:06:15+01:00July 1st, 2020|Categories: Horn of Africa, Literary Criticism|Tags: Africa, canonicity, Congo, Disciplines, genres, literature, national identity, Planetary Literature, poetics, world literature|

Watch Silvia Riva (University of Milan) discuss Congolese Literature as World, or rather Planetary Literature.

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الوطن حلم: كتاب القوقعة لمصطفي خليفة
الوطن حلم: كتاب القوقعة لمصطفي خليفة

Literary Criticism, Maghreb Reading, North India Readings, Reading, Translations

الوطن حلم: كتاب القوقعة لمصطفي خليفة

By admin_mulosige|2020-06-10T15:40:10+01:00June 10th, 2020|Categories: Literary Criticism, Maghreb Reading, North India Readings, Reading, Translations|

Aarifah Khoodoruth review of "The Shell: Memoirs of a Hidden Observer" by Muṣṭafá Khalīfah was a winner of MULOSIGE's Review and Publish Project.

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Reading Together: Hindi, Urdu, and English Village Novels
Reading Together: Hindi, Urdu, and English Village Novels

Literary Criticism, North India Readings

Reading Together: Hindi, Urdu, and English Village Novels

By admin_mulosige|2020-05-11T12:47:11+01:00May 11th, 2020|Categories: Literary Criticism, North India Readings|

Read Francesca Orsini's chapter "Reading Together: Hindi, Urdu, and English Village Novels." In: Ciocca, R. and Srivastava, N., (eds.), Indian Literature and the World: Multilingualism, Translation, and the Public Sphere. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 61-85.

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Na Turk, na Hindu: Shared language, accents and located meanings
Na Turk, na Hindu: Shared language, accents and located meanings

Literary Criticism, North India Readings

Na Turk, na Hindu: Shared language, accents and located meanings

By admin_mulosige|2020-05-11T12:39:40+01:00May 11th, 2020|Categories: Literary Criticism, North India Readings|

An introduction to Francesca Orsini's book chapter "Na Turk, na Hindu: Shared language, accents and located meanings" in A Multilingual Nation: Translation and Language Dynamic in India.

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Present Absence Book Circulation, Indian Vernaculars and World Literature in the 19th Century
Present Absence Book Circulation, Indian Vernaculars and World Literature in the 19th Century

Literary Criticism, North India

Present Absence Book Circulation, Indian Vernaculars and World Literature in the 19th Century

By admin_mulosige|2020-05-11T12:14:42+01:00May 11th, 2020|Categories: Literary Criticism, North India|

An introduction to Professor Francesca Orsini's article: Present Absence Book Circulation, Indian Vernaculars and World Literature in the Nineteenth Century, published in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies

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Significant Geographies of African Literary Festivals – Talk
Significant Geographies of African Literary Festivals – Talk

Horn of Africa, Literary Criticism, Podcast

Significant Geographies of African Literary Festivals – Talk

By admin_mulosige|2021-02-26T11:16:22+01:00April 6th, 2020|Categories: Horn of Africa, Literary Criticism, Podcast|

Claire Ducournau is a tenured Associate Professor in Literature at Paul-Valéry – Montpellier 3 University, and a member of the RIRRA21 research center. Her work centers on francophone African writing, publishing and media. She is particularly interested in how sociological research methods and close textual analysis can be combined to explore African literature in

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MULOSIGE Reading List: The Significant Literary Geographies of African Festivals
MULOSIGE Reading List: The Significant Literary Geographies of African Festivals

Digital Humanities and Archiving, Education and Taste, Horn of Africa, Literary Criticism, Members, MULOSIGE Syllabi, Reading

MULOSIGE Reading List: The Significant Literary Geographies of African Festivals

By admin_mulosige|2019-07-31T09:39:48+01:00July 31st, 2019|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving, Education and Taste, Horn of Africa, Literary Criticism, Members, MULOSIGE Syllabi, Reading|Tags: Africa, ethnography, festivals, Francophone, geography, literary, world literature|

In an era where cultural festivals multiply, so-called African festivals have spread in Africa, but also outside of Africa, in major cities as well as in little-known villages, for example in provincial France. What are some of their implications and effects in the case of francophone African literature?

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Poétiques et politiques de l’activisme des écrivains dans les Pays du Sud
Poétiques et politiques de l’activisme des écrivains dans les Pays du Sud

Digital Humanities and Archiving, Events, Horn of Africa, Literary Criticism, Maghreb, North India

Poétiques et politiques de l’activisme des écrivains dans les Pays du Sud

By admin_mulosige|2019-07-03T09:43:26+01:00July 3rd, 2019|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving, Events, Horn of Africa, Literary Criticism, Maghreb, North India|

Cette conférence s’assigne comme but d’explorer selon une perspective comparée la manière dont l’activisme des écrivains négocie la poétique et la politique dans trois régions des Pays du Sud: le Maghreb, la Corne de l’Afrique et le nord de l’Inde.

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Oral Traditions in World Literature – Addis Ababa Conference
Oral Traditions in World Literature – Addis Ababa Conference

Events, Horn of Africa, Itineraries, Literary Criticism, Orality and Oral Forms

Oral Traditions in World Literature – Addis Ababa Conference

By admin_mulosige|2019-11-04T12:53:25+01:00July 2nd, 2019|Categories: Events, Horn of Africa, Itineraries, Literary Criticism, Orality and Oral Forms|Tags: Addis Ababa, conference, Ethiopia, oral, orality, traditions|

In this conference, we argue that oral traditions are a vital component of world literature, and not only as an antecedent to written literatures, but in their own right. The conference seeks to move past the characterisation of oral literature as traditional, locally constrained, and less aesthetically complex than written literatures. We will show instead that oral traditions are a modern and dynamic form of literary expression everywhere around the world, sometimes able to circulate across long distances.

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