Paris seems to come up again and again in Arabic literature. Considering its history, and the presence of a large Arabic-speaking diaspora in France, it is perhaps unsurprising that Paris is an incredible destination for readers of Arabic
World literature, Sarah Brouillette argues, could be understood as "a moment of purportedly global circulation that is really a moment of uneven distribution"
In his latest Amharic novel, the Ethiopian writer Adam Reta uses the metaphor of light prisms and colours to describe how couples, histories and nations part, mix and combine
Opening horizons to the multifacetedness of cultural production on the Asian continent using case studies from Japan and South Korea, China and India
Jürgen Osterhammel discusses Eurocentrism and the status of world history in the German academy
S. Shankar's work challenges reductive understandings of ‘world’ as presented in theories of ‘world literature’ and critiques conceptualisations of ‘literature’ as influenced by Western ideas of the ‘literary’
Morocco hosted the 23rd Annual Casablanca International Book Fair, featuring over 350 live exhibitors and spanning a ten-day period. Any book fan would be lost for hours among the maze of stands and rows upon rows of bookshelves.
Education systems, and the literary works they prioritized, are an excellent inroad to outlining how literary forms and cultures responded to colonialism
Javed Majeed joined us for an informative and enjoyable reading group where we discussed his work on the Linguistic Survey of India and its superintendent, George Grierson.
When does a book become part of world literature? When it is translated into a major language, published by a metropolitan publisher and endorsed by renowned writers? So why has Qurratulain Hyder’s novel failed to register?
