Digital Humanities and Archiving
The digital sphere is undoubtedly a vibrant platform of exchange for world literature. By compiling and comparing online resources, we hope to explore innovations and disruptions created in the digital sphere.
Although the ideal of a global “World Wide Web” is to some degree an aspirational horizon — many regions do not have the infrastructure to provide widespread internet connectivity — it provides unprecedented access to resources, as well as connecting scholars from around the globe. For example, we can note that the digital platform allows for the creation of digital archives like MULOSIGE! While literary texts in non-latin scripts have been neglected by many digital archives, this is starting to change with new scholarship on the digital lives of non-European languages and projects like al-kitaab flourishing online.
Visiting physical libraries and engaging in fieldwork research remains central to our engagement with World Literature, as many archives cannot be accessed through online platforms. However, we hope that MULOSIGE can offer a digital archive which will keep growing as we add to the non-euroncentric literary resources that are available online.
Blogging from Egypt: Digital Literature, Teresa Pepe
“Blogging from Egypt: Digital Literature” Teresa Pepe considers how Egyptian blogs can be read as world literature; recognising their literary and political innovations.
Born in the Village, Roaming the World, Sara Grewal
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.
Multilingual Literature: Review and Publish
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.
Magazines and World Literature Online
Professor Francesca Orsini is the Principal Investigator of the MULOSIGE
Archival Research in World Literature
In this post, Fatima Burney interviews David Hirsch, the former librarian for Jewish, Middle Eastern, Central Asian, South Asian, and Armenian Studies at UCLA, on matters related to archival resources in Urdu.
Contemporary African Oral Traditions – Roundtable Recording
Orature plays a determinant role in literary expression around the world, but unwritten verbal arts have been explicitly excluded from definitions of world literature. Watch the recording from the roundtable on Contemporary Oral African Traditions to learn more about orature's place in world literature.