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MULOSIGE Reading List: Imagining Mid-Nineteenth-Century Beirut as a ‘City of the World’
MULOSIGE Reading List: Imagining Mid-Nineteenth-Century Beirut as a ‘City of the World’

Digital Humanities and Archiving, Maghreb, Members, MULOSIGE Syllabi, Reading, Time Periods

MULOSIGE Reading List: Imagining Mid-Nineteenth-Century Beirut as a ‘City of the World’

By admin_mulosige|2019-08-09T12:25:58+01:00August 9th, 2019|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving, Maghreb, Members, MULOSIGE Syllabi, Reading, Time Periods|Tags: Beirut, cartography, Colonialism, literature, newspapers, photography, post-war|

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’.

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Conference: The Poetics and Politics of Writer-Activism in the Global South
Conference: The Poetics and Politics of Writer-Activism in the Global South

Education and Taste, Events, Horn of Africa, Maghreb, North India, Poetry

Conference: The Poetics and Politics of Writer-Activism in the Global South

By admin_mulosige|2019-07-06T09:44:10+01:00June 7th, 2019|Categories: Education and Taste, Events, Horn of Africa, Maghreb, North India, Poetry|Tags: activist, Colonialism, conference, dissidence, events, Global South, Pan-African, pan-Arabic, poetics, writer|

MULOSIGE is co-organising the conference "The Poetics and Politics of Writer-Activism in the Global South: Between Local Engagement and World-Making Solidarities" with The University of Mohamed V, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences; Rabat, Morocco, 16-17 April 2020.

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Postcolonial Print Cultures Conference: Tambimuttu and Sivanandan: Cold-War America and International Socialism.
Postcolonial Print Cultures Conference: Tambimuttu and Sivanandan: Cold-War America and International Socialism.

Journals, Podcast

Postcolonial Print Cultures Conference: Tambimuttu and Sivanandan: Cold-War America and International Socialism.

By admin_mulosige|2019-04-12T14:12:40+01:00March 6th, 2019|Categories: Journals, Podcast|Tags: America, anti-colonial, Cold War, Colonialism, Decolonisation, history, politics, Socialism, Sri Lanka, world literature|

Tambimuttu and Sivanandan: Cold-War America and International Socialism Dr Ruvani Ranasinha (Kings College London) considers and contrasts the political positions and self-fashioning adopted during the careers of two mid-century Sri Lankan writers. Ranasinha recounts Tambimuttu’s self-stereotyping of the sensual Orient, first with his move to the UK in 1938, and later in terms

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Postcolonial Print Cultures Conference Report
Postcolonial Print Cultures Conference Report

Horn of Africa, Journals, Literary Criticism, Maghreb, North India, Past events

Postcolonial Print Cultures Conference Report

By admin_mulosige|2019-04-12T14:14:35+01:00February 21st, 2019|Categories: Horn of Africa, Journals, Literary Criticism, Maghreb, North India, Past events|Tags: America, Bombay, Cold War, Colonialism, conference, Current Globalising Movement, Decolonisation, GDR, Gorky, Hindi, Pan-African, postcolonial, postcolonial studies, print cultures, Resistance, Third Worldism|

The Postcolonial Print Cultures Conference was convened at SOAS University of London on the 11-12th January 2019. The methodological conditions behind the conference are to consider the historical moment of the Cold War in ways other than by splitting the world into two spheres.

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Dernières nouvelles du colonialisme: legitimising collective memory in the face of legislative amnesia
Dernières nouvelles du colonialisme: legitimising collective memory in the face of legislative amnesia

Education and Taste, Horn of Africa, Reading, Themes, Translations

Dernières nouvelles du colonialisme: legitimising collective memory in the face of legislative amnesia

By admin_mulosige|2019-04-12T14:17:09+01:00January 21st, 2019|Categories: Education and Taste, Horn of Africa, Reading, Themes, Translations|Tags: Amnesia, collection, colonial nostalgia, Colonialism, colonisation, erasure, Françafrique, France, Francophone literature, historiography, history, legislation, memory, postcolonial literature|

Isadora Hutcheson-Lovett argues that "Dernières nouvelles du colonialisme" pushes back against French legislative power; demonstrating collective transnational memory in the face of France's metropolitan amnesia.

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“Ach Ba Gá Dom Labhairt Leat:” An Foclóir Aiteach and the Presence of Queer Culture as Gaeilge.
“Ach Ba Gá Dom Labhairt Leat:” An Foclóir Aiteach and the Presence of Queer Culture as Gaeilge.

Gender and Queer Studies, Reading, Translations

“Ach Ba Gá Dom Labhairt Leat:” An Foclóir Aiteach and the Presence of Queer Culture as Gaeilge.

By admin_mulosige|2019-04-12T14:17:26+01:00January 14th, 2019|Categories: Gender and Queer Studies, Reading, Translations|Tags: Anti-Gay, Anti-Queer, Britain, Catholicism, Christianity, Cisheteropatriarchy, Colonialism, Communications, Dictionary, England, English, erasure, feminism, Gaeilge, Gaeltacht, Gay, gender, Gender and Queer Studies, Gender Theory, Heteropatriarchy, Homophobia, Ireland, Irish Language, language, LGBTQ+, literature, mythology, Neo-Colonialism, Patriarchy, Performativity, Protestantism, Queer, Queer Theory, Repronormativity, translation|

Jenny Moran introduces An Foclóir Aiteach, a dictionary that writes queer terminology into the Irish language.

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Ethiopia and the convergence of antifascist and anticolonial activism in the 1930s
Ethiopia and the convergence of antifascist and anticolonial activism in the 1930s

Horn of Africa, Literary Criticism, Reading

Ethiopia and the convergence of antifascist and anticolonial activism in the 1930s

By Sara Marzagora|2019-04-12T14:19:40+01:00November 21st, 2018|Categories: Horn of Africa, Literary Criticism, Reading|Tags: anticolonial thought, book review, Colonialism, Ethiopia, intellectual history, Italian colonialism, postcolonial theory|

Dr Sara Marzagora reviews Neelam Srivastava's new book "Italian Colonialism and Resistances to Empire, 1930-1977"

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Contextualising politics of the South African Land Fear
Contextualising politics of the South African Land Fear

Horn of Africa, Reading

Contextualising politics of the South African Land Fear

By admin_mulosige|2018-10-13T20:08:17+01:00October 13th, 2018|Categories: Horn of Africa, Reading|Tags: Colonialism, Genre, Land, novel, South Africa|

Edna Mohamed is an MA Postcolonial Studies student at SOAS, University of London. Her current research examines de-linking practises and liberation movements within the cultural form from a Black feminist lens. Her other interests are in race studies, the Muslim diaspora, postcolonial environmentalism and gender studies. Contextualising the politics of the South

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Sultana’s Dream: An alternative view of colonial Bengal.
Sultana’s Dream: An alternative view of colonial Bengal.

Gender and Queer Studies, Genre, North India, North India Readings, Reading

Sultana’s Dream: An alternative view of colonial Bengal.

By admin_mulosige|2019-12-04T11:32:37+01:00September 25th, 2018|Categories: Gender and Queer Studies, Genre, North India, North India Readings, Reading|Tags: Colonialism, eco-criticism, female education, feminism, fiction, linguistic colonialism, reading, Rokeya Hossain, short story, Sultana’s Dream, utopia, women's writing, world literature|

Sinjini Chatterjee discusses the portrayal of a female utopia in Rokeya Hossain's Engish language short story, "Sultana's Dream".

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Mysteries of the Indian Jungle – Emilio Salgari’s Orientalist adventures
Mysteries of the Indian Jungle – Emilio Salgari’s Orientalist adventures

Education and Taste, North India, North India Readings, Reading

Mysteries of the Indian Jungle – Emilio Salgari’s Orientalist adventures

By admin_mulosige|2019-12-04T11:33:10+01:00September 12th, 2018|Categories: Education and Taste, North India, North India Readings, Reading|Tags: adventure, anticolonialism, children's literature, Colonialism, India, Italian|

No Italian writer has left a deeper and more lasting imprint over Italian readers of a certain exotic image of India than Emilio Salgari (1862-1922). His adventure books spanning four continents rank among the classics of adventure/children’s literature. Indeed, were popularity alone determined membership to world literature, Salgari would count as the foremost Italian writer in the world.

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