'Brittle Paper' founder Dr. Ainehi Edoro talks to Sana Goyal about how recognizing and promoting African literature online can fill in gaps left by traditional literary outlets and their gatekeepers.
Mauritanian writer Mohmed Bouya Bamba argues that English has practical advantages for interethnic and intercountry communication in Africa, so Africans should reclaim the language instead of waging a futile ideological war
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
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
Paris seems to come up again and again in Arabic literature. Considering its history, and the presence of a large Arabic-speaking diaspora in France, it is perhaps unsurprising that Paris is an incredible destination for readers of Arabic
Morocco hosted the 23rd Annual Casablanca International Book Fair, featuring over 350 live exhibitors and spanning a ten-day period. Any book fan would be lost for hours among the maze of stands and rows upon rows of bookshelves.
Education systems, and the literary works they prioritized, are an excellent inroad to outlining how literary forms and cultures responded to colonialism
Case Study: Maghreb التعدد اللغوي المحلي والفضائات الجغرافية ذات الأهمية: من أجل نهج جديد لدراسة الأدب العالمي Les multilingues locales et géographies significatives : pour une nouvelle approche de la littérature– monde Locales Multilingües y Geografías Significativas: un Nuevo Enfoque sobre la Literatura Mundial – se centra en los numerosos y a veces fracturados mundos
Professor Francesca Orsini, Principal Investigator and Leader, North India case study 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
Multilingual Locals and Significant Geographies: For a New Approach to World Literature explores the numerous and often fractured worlds of literature from the perspective of multilingual societies. Sites in North India, the Maghreb and the Horn of Africa have been chosen for their multiple precolonial written and oral traditions and different experiences of colonialism
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