Colonialism
Approaching colonialism from the perspective of pre-colonial literary multilingualism allows us to see it as intervening into already dynamic fields rather than making tabula rasa. In each case we noticed that genres other than the novel were locally important, like satirical sketches, journals, poetry, or Sufi literature. Despite colonial education policies that allegedly created individuals literate in either one language or the other, we see the emergence of new multilingual actors, and a gap between new ideas of language and literature and less exclusive tastes and practices.
Ethiopia and the convergence of antifascist and anticolonial activism in the 1930s
Dr Sara Marzagora reviews Neelam Srivastava's new book "Italian Colonialism and Resistances to Empire, 1930-1977"
Contextualising politics of the South African Land Fear
Edna Mohamed is an MA Postcolonial Studies student at
Sultana’s Dream: An alternative view of colonial Bengal.
Sinjini Chatterjee discusses the portrayal of a female utopia in Rokeya Hossain's Engish language short story, "Sultana's Dream".
Mysteries of the Indian Jungle – Emilio Salgari’s Orientalist adventures
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.
A Textbook Example: How English schools shape views of Hindi Literature
Shonali Jindal investigates whether a fundamental difference exists in the treatment of Hindi and English Literature in English-medium textbooks in contemporary India.
Gender and Criminality in Bangla Crime Narratives: Late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries
Gender and Criminality in Bangla Crime Narratives: Late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries examines Bangla writings related to crime in the late 19th and early 20th century Bengal in terms of gender.