How Love is Revolution: The Unexpected Love Objects of Dunya Noor
The novelist Rana Haddad writes about her novel, "The Unexpected Love Objects of Dunya Noor" for the MULOSIGE project.
Congolese Literature as World, or rather Planetary, Literature?
Watch Silvia Riva (University of Milan) discuss Congolese Literature as World, or rather Planetary Literature.
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 Syllabus: Science, Literature and Development in the MENA Region
This is a course about the relationship between science, literature and development in the MENA region and the role science fiction in world literature.
Asoosama gabaabaa: A short story in Oromo
"I did not know it" tells the story of Ruufo Gurraachaa, a girl who survived the Surro massacre as a small child. Brought up by a perpetrator of the massacre and given in marriage to an old man who orchestrated the violence, Ruufo is unaware of her tragic past. Yet these secrets cannot stay hidden. As Ruufo discovers that her husband's past brutally connects with her own, she must decide whether or not to take revenge.
Barreessitoonni fi Qorattoonni Oromoo waa’ee Ogbarruu Oromoo Maal Jedhu?
Ayele Kebede Roba discusses Oromo literature in the Oromo language; centring discussions of world literature outside of the English language.
“Ach Ba Gá Dom Labhairt Leat:” An Foclóir Aiteach and the Presence of Queer Culture as Gaeilge.
Jenny Moran introduces An Foclóir Aiteach, a dictionary that writes queer terminology into the Irish language.
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.
Football and Migrant crises: Fatou Diome’s Le Ventre de l’Atlantique
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.
From indigenous to Catalan?: Shifting paradigms of identity in the limits of Moroccan literatures
Hispanophone Maghribi authors have not yet made inroads into the Spanish literary scene and academia, nor in the Moroccan one. This double absence derives on the one hand from the particularities of this colonial context, but it is also related to the general absence of Hispanophone literatures within the field of postcolonial studies, where issues related to the modern Spanish colonies are not often discussed.