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“Onitsha market literature provides a portrait of a dynamic period in Nigeria’s history,” said Thobile Ndimande, a Ph.D. student in Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. “The pamphlets contain ...
Through this participation, the Embassy aims to share a wide-ranging selection of American literature that reflects the breadth, complexity, and evolving nature of American literature and ...
Although routine in Europe and the US, Vargas Llosa’s blend of rule-of-law pluralism and suspicion of the overmighty state remains an exotic stance in Latin America. The camp of his populist ...
At the age of 76, with the 2021 Literature Nobel under his belt ... "We are still living through the consequences of the colonial period," Gurnah says. "Inequality in economic terms, particularly ...
As a scholar of Asian American literature, assistant professor of English Lamyu Maria Bo centers her classes around three keywords: “diaspora,” “translation” and “multilingual.” ...
In 1789, Benjamin Crowninshield, an American, wrote about a 'sati' in ... to region and often caste to caste. Bengal in the colonial period saw the highest numbers—hundreds every year in the ...
The video discusses the emergence of an American identity through literature during the 18th-century Revolutionary period. It highlights the growth of colonial communities, the role of printing in ...
The significance of African American literature has never been more profound. This is neither an imaginative nor conspiratorial factoid, especially amid the systematic dismantling of DEI ...
Rwanda's colonial history is one marred with ambivalences ... Lemarchand, A French-American political scientist attributed UNAR's success to nationalism, which united all Rwandans towards progress ...
“America today,” Wolfe wrote, “in a headlong rush of her own, may or may not truly need a literature worthy of her vastness. But American novelists, without any doubt, truly need, in this ...