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Anticolonial imaginaries in the ‘failed state’: epistemic violence and the representation of the Congo in cultural discourse (2021)
Thesis
Sandhu, H. L. Anticolonial imaginaries in the ‘failed state’: epistemic violence and the representation of the Congo in cultural discourse. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This research critiques the contemporary representation of the Congo as a ‘failed’ or ‘invisible’ state and argues that this discourse continues in the tradition of epistemic violence fundamental to European colonial history in the Congo and Africa m... Read More about Anticolonial imaginaries in the ‘failed state’: epistemic violence and the representation of the Congo in cultural discourse.

The segmental phonetics and phonology of Hyow, A Tibeto-Burman language of Bangladesh (2020)
Journal Article
Zakaria, M. (2020). The segmental phonetics and phonology of Hyow, A Tibeto-Burman language of Bangladesh. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area, 43(2), 309-346. https://doi.org/10.1075/ltba.19006.zak

Abstract This paper presents a description and analysis of segmental phonetics and phonology of Hyow, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by almost 4,000 people in the southeast of Bangladesh. Hyow demonstrates phonological features which are absent in o... Read More about The segmental phonetics and phonology of Hyow, A Tibeto-Burman language of Bangladesh.

Settled rather than saddled Scythians: the easternmost Sakas (2020)
Book Chapter
Waghmar, B. (2020). Settled rather than saddled Scythians: the easternmost Sakas. In S. Pankova, & S. J. Simpson (Eds.), Masters of the Steppe: the Impact of the Scythians and Later Nomad Societies of Eurasia. Proceedings of a conference held at the British Museum, 27-29 October 2017 (639-649). Archaeopress

At the easternmost edge of the Iranic world, settled rather than saddled Scythians ran the kingdom of Khotan as Iranian-speaking Buddhists who traded and tussled with their T’ang and Tibetan neighbours. Straddling the Sino-Tibetan and Irano-Indic oec... Read More about Settled rather than saddled Scythians: the easternmost Sakas.

日本語におけるイタリア語由来の外来語について―明治期を中心として (2020)
Journal Article
Spitale, V. (2020). 日本語におけるイタリア語由来の外来語について―明治期を中心として. Il Giappone (Napoli. 2020), 1, 169-211. https://doi.org/10.6092/2724-4369

The history of cultural exchanges between Japan and Italy can be traced back to the second half of the 16th century. However, it was only in the Meiji era that Japanese and Italian began to come into contact, and that gairaigo (loanwords) of Italian... Read More about 日本語におけるイタリア語由来の外来語について―明治期を中心として.

Al-Shaikh Māʾ al-ʿAynayn: Maghrebi-Saharan literary geographies on the eve of colonization (2020)
Journal Article
Blalack, J. S. (2020). Al-Shaikh Māʾ al-ʿAynayn: Maghrebi-Saharan literary geographies on the eve of colonization. Journal of the African Literature Association, 14(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2020.1812207

Although the 19th-century Sufi figure al-Shaikh Maʾ al-ʿAynayn led a major resistance movement in what is now southern Morocco, northern Mauritania, and the disputed Western Sahara while also becoming one of the most widely printed authors on the Fez... Read More about Al-Shaikh Māʾ al-ʿAynayn: Maghrebi-Saharan literary geographies on the eve of colonization.

Intermedial Translation as Circulation: Chu Tien-wen, Taiwan New Cinema, and Taiwan Literature (2020)
Journal Article
Yeung, J. S.-Y. (2020). Intermedial Translation as Circulation: Chu Tien-wen, Taiwan New Cinema, and Taiwan Literature. Journal of World Literature, 5(4), 568-586. https://doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00504005

We generally believe that literature first circulates nationally and then scales up through translation and reception at an international level. In contrast, I argue that Taiwan literature first attained international acclaim through intermedial tran... Read More about Intermedial Translation as Circulation: Chu Tien-wen, Taiwan New Cinema, and Taiwan Literature.