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.
Science Fiction Beyond the West
MULOSIGE attended the conference Science Fiction Beyond the West: Futurity in African and Asian Contexts. Sneha Alexander gives a full summary of the event.
MULOSIGE Reading List: Imagining Mid-Nineteenth-Century Beirut as a ‘City of the World’
This reading list was contributed by Dr Rita Sakr and addresses the mid-nineteenth-century cultural-geographical dynamics that constructed Beirut as a ‘city of the world’, helping us to consider how its production forms both a ‘crisis of representation’ and a ‘representation of crisis’.
MULOSIGE Reading List: Orature, World Literature and Mobility
Professor Catherine Servan-Schreiber (CNRS Paris) offers a reading list that explores orature and mobility in North Indian popular culture.
MULOSIGE Reading List: The Significant Literary Geographies of African Festivals
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?
Poétiques et politiques de l’activisme des écrivains dans les Pays du Sud
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.
MULOSIGE Reading List: International Solidarity and World Literature
This reading list was contributed by Dr Anna Bernard and challenges the choice between nation and transnationalism that has often seemed central to theorizations of world literature, but which has tended to bypass internationalist networks of anti-colonial writers working within discrete national contexts.