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Continue reading "Interview: James Currey on publishing African Literature"
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Blog: Reason.com
"If we can't trust ourselves as a culture to accommodate ideas we don't like," the novelist said at the Library of Congress, "then our ideas lose their value as well, because they become authoritarian."
Blog: Reason.com
These aren't outright bans. But they still can chill free speech and academic freedom.
Blog: The New Rambler. An Online Review of Books - New Rambler Review
By ADAM KOZACZKA
Review of Character: Writing and Reputation in Victorian Law and Literature, by Catherine O. Frank.
Blog: Global Voices
Global Voices interviewed Nepali writer, editor, and literary translator Jayant Sharma, who is a staunch advocate for the global recognition of Nepali literature.
Blog: Global Voices
Cheikh Hamidou Kane's novels are penetrating explorations of the deep-seated unease within Africa's intellectual class amid French colonization — still relevant today
Blog: Global Voices
"[A]s Peepal Tree Press publishes Rahim's posthumous novel, [it is] pronounced among "best Caribbean novels," tackling questions of "society and personal being asked by great novelists from Eliot to Lovelace."
Blog: LSE International History
In this article, Upasana Dandona discusses the historiography of the gender violence surrounding the Indo-Pak partition in 1947. Dandona shows that existing literature discussed a dual marginalization of all women involved: they faced sexual violence and abductions during the conflict, and a subsequent alienation from their families and governments. While literature exists on the topic, … Continued
Blog: Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
My new book Class War is a literary history, but it is committed to literature as something more than a record of past events. With a textual archive comprising letters, slogans, songs, manifestoes, memoirs, and field manuals in addition to novels, poems, and other more obviously literary modes of expression, literature is to be understood here as an active participant in the revolutionary process.
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Blog: The New Rambler. An Online Review of Books - New Rambler Review
By MAKSYMILIAN DEL MAR
Review of The Sentimental Life of International Law: Literature, Language, and Longing in World Politics, by Gerry Simpson
Blog: Global Voices
As a result of a reform of the literature teaching program in secondary schools, Togolese authors are at last making their entry into the lessons of their country.
Blog: Global Voices
Chad is a pivot country between North and Central Africa. It is rarely covered as a place of literature, thus Global Voices interviewed francophone novelist Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry.
Blog: Global Voices
In 2021, the Goncourt Prize was awarded to a Senegalese author, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. Does this, however, imply that Francophone African literatures are known and recognized at their true value?
Blog: Global Voices
Global Voices interviewed Nepali author Krishna Bajgai to learn about his literary achievements and contributions and how the larger Nepali diaspora expresses its struggles and experiences through literature.
Blog: The New Rambler. An Online Review of Books - New Rambler Review
By ROBERT SPOO
Review of Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of US Literature, by Jordan S. Carroll, and A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England, by Christopher Hilliard