Current Globalising Movement
The current globalising moment has seen the boom of neo-liberal global capitalism, of Anglophone literature and a revival of “world literature” as comparative literature for the global age. Ironically, “world literature” and Anglophone and Francophone literatures have successfully questioned the hegemony of national literatures and of English and French literatures more narrowly defined, but at the same time have tended to make invisible literatures in other languages and from other parts of the world. Festivals provide mini-stagings of the world, while internet magazines and sites, as well as small publishers, seek to circumvent the stranglehold of the Anglophone on global publishing.
MULOSIGE Reading List: International Solidarity and 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.
MULOSIGE Reading List: World Literature and Planetary Catastrophe
Dr Florian Mussgnug (UCL) provides a reading list on World Literature and Planetary Catastrophe.
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.
Being Human
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.
The Ethiopian Writers’ Association: Between Multilingual Openings and Monolingual Practice
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.
Postcolonial Print Cultures Conference Report
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.