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.
Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea is an important piece of literature because it encourages us to think about local and transnational literary space.
SOAS CCLPS Critical Forum – Nadeschda Bachem & Yan Jia
Opening horizons to the multifacetedness of cultural production on the Asian continent using case studies from Japan and South Korea, China and India
Reading group on Education and Comparative Colonialisms
Education systems, and the literary works they prioritized, are an excellent inroad to outlining how literary forms and cultures responded to colonialism
Reading group with Javed Majeed (King’s College London)
Javed Majeed joined us for an informative and enjoyable reading group where we discussed his work on the Linguistic Survey of India and its superintendent, George Grierson.
Qurratulain Hyder’s The Nautch Girl: A doubly multilingual text
What happens when a text from 17th century India passes through a double translation over the next two centuries? Qurratulain Hyder's translation of Hasan Shah's The Nautch Girl reveals some of the changes that occur when texts move across time and space.
Antonio Gramsci’s Anti-colonial Imagination podcast
Dr Thomas Langley (King's College London) makes a case for reading Antonio Gramsci as an anti-colonial writer. By turning to some of Gramsci’s lesser-known pre-prison writings we can trace lines of continuity that underline the centrality of questions of colonial and imperial power in his work, and foreground the ways in which his writing is characterised by a consistent attempt to locate Italy as a terrain of struggle in relation to broader contours of colonial exploitation and anti-colonial resistance.