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MULOSIGE Reading List: International Solidarity and World Literature
MULOSIGE Reading List: International Solidarity and World Literature

Digital Humanities and Archiving, Literary Criticism, Maghreb, Members, MULOSIGE Syllabi, Poetry

MULOSIGE Reading List: International Solidarity and World Literature

By admin_mulosige|2019-12-04T10:50:52+01:00July 1st, 2019|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving, Literary Criticism, Maghreb, Members, MULOSIGE Syllabi, Poetry|Tags: Current Globalising Movement, International, Nicaragua, Palestine, Poetry, solidarity, South Africa, 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.

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MULOSIGE Reading List: World Literature and Planetary Catastrophe
MULOSIGE Reading List: World Literature and Planetary Catastrophe

Digital Humanities and Archiving, Genre, Literary Criticism, Members, MULOSIGE Syllabi, Reading

MULOSIGE Reading List: World Literature and Planetary Catastrophe

By admin_mulosige|2019-05-31T10:19:51+01:00May 30th, 2019|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving, Genre, Literary Criticism, Members, MULOSIGE Syllabi, Reading|Tags: apocalypse, catastrophe, culture, Current Globalising Movement, environment, Genre, narrative, pandemic, technology, vulnerability, world literature|

Dr Florian Mussgnug (UCL) provides a reading list on World Literature and Planetary Catastrophe.

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MULOSIGE Syllabus: Science, Literature and Development in the MENA Region
MULOSIGE Syllabus: Science, Literature and Development in the MENA Region

Genre, Maghreb, Members, MULOSIGE Syllabi, Popular and Pulp Fiction

MULOSIGE Syllabus: Science, Literature and Development in the MENA Region

By admin_mulosige|2019-12-04T10:51:15+01:00May 28th, 2019|Categories: Genre, Maghreb, Members, MULOSIGE Syllabi, Popular and Pulp Fiction|Tags: Arab West, Current Globalising Movement, iran, Israel, literature, science fiction, Turkey, world literature|

This is a course about the relationship between science, literature and development in the MENA region and the role science fiction in world literature.

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Being Human
Being Human

Digital Humanities and Archiving, Maghreb, North India, Orality and Oral Forms, Past events, Podcast, Uncategorized

Being Human

By admin_mulosige|2019-05-14T16:08:16+01:00May 13th, 2019|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving, Maghreb, North India, Orality and Oral Forms, Past events, Podcast, Uncategorized|Tags: Arabic, Current Globalising Movement, libraries, music, stories, workshop|

In this podcast, Dr Vayu Naidu discusses the MULOSIGE project with Professor Francesca Orsini, Itzea Goikolea-Amiano and Jack Clift. As part of the Being Human festival, Dr Vayu Naidu gives a storytelling workshop at the N4 Library and discusses how multiple languages, improvisation and music can create fascinating new paths for stories and literature to travel across the world.

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The Ethiopian Writers’ Association: Between Multilingual Openings and Monolingual Practice
The Ethiopian Writers’ Association: Between Multilingual Openings and Monolingual Practice

Horn of Africa, Journals, Reading

The Ethiopian Writers’ Association: Between Multilingual Openings and Monolingual Practice

By admin_mulosige|2019-05-03T15:02:16+01:00May 3rd, 2019|Categories: Horn of Africa, Journals, Reading|Tags: Amharic, Current Globalising Movement, Ethiopia, Journals, multilingual, writers|

When the association that claims to be “Ethiopian” restricts its policy and publications to the tradition of one language and presents that language as a representative of the country, the legitimacy of such a claim should be called into question.

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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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What’s in a Name? On Afghanistan’s Fraught Persian Language Politics
What’s in a Name? On Afghanistan’s Fraught Persian Language Politics

Digital Humanities and Archiving, North India, North India Readings, Reading, Translations

What’s in a Name? On Afghanistan’s Fraught Persian Language Politics

By admin_mulosige|2019-12-04T11:32:00+01:00January 7th, 2019|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving, North India, North India Readings, Reading, Translations|Tags: Afghan, Afghanistan, BBC News, Current Globalising Movement, Dari, Farsi, language hierarchies, Languages, Persian|

Ronah Baha discusses the politics of the BBC's decision to name their BBC Afghanistan page 'BBC Dari', focusing on the rich diversity of Persian literary and civilisational linguistic histories.

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Writing Rumi in Whitman’s Image: On Coleman Barks, and the Appropriation of Rumi’s Poetry
Writing Rumi in Whitman’s Image: On Coleman Barks, and the Appropriation of Rumi’s Poetry

North India, North India Readings, Poetry, Reading

Writing Rumi in Whitman’s Image: On Coleman Barks, and the Appropriation of Rumi’s Poetry

By admin_mulosige|2019-12-04T12:05:05+01:00July 18th, 2018|Categories: North India, North India Readings, Poetry, Reading|Tags: appropriation, Coleman Barks, culture, Current Globalising Movement, mystic, Orientalism, Poetry, postcolonial, Rumi, Said, verse|

Barks looks to create a rendition of Rumi that is intelligible to him. This endeavor manifests as a form of Orientalism, however subtle: it is Barks’ project to create Rumi and Rumi's poetry in his own image.

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Football and Migrant crises: Fatou Diome’s Le Ventre de l’Atlantique
Football and Migrant crises: Fatou Diome’s Le Ventre de l’Atlantique

Horn of Africa, Popular and Pulp Fiction, Reading, Translations

Football and Migrant crises: Fatou Diome’s Le Ventre de l’Atlantique

By admin_mulosige|2019-04-12T14:26:08+01:00June 19th, 2018|Categories: Horn of Africa, Popular and Pulp Fiction, Reading, Translations|Tags: Africa, Atlantic, crisis, Current Globalising Movement, europe, football, footballer, France, Francophone literature, human trafficking, literature, migration, Migritude, mythology, Négritude, Niodior, novel, Senegal, sport, world literature|

Published in 2003, Fatou Diome’s début novel Le Ventre de l’Atlantique (The Belly of the Atlantic) followed a defining moment in modern Franco-Senegalese history: the 2002 Fifa World Cup.

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