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The alchemy of translation in Hausa: cosmopolitanism, gatekeeping, and infrastructure in English-Hausa translation (2025)
Journal Article
McCain, C. (in press). The alchemy of translation in Hausa: cosmopolitanism, gatekeeping, and infrastructure in English-Hausa translation. Journal of the African Literature Association, 19(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2025.2464416

In February 2023, Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho tweeted a cover of Muddassir S. Abdullahi’s yet-to-be-published Hausa-language translation of Coelho’s bestselling novel The Alchemist to his 15.2 million followers. At the same time Ibrahim Sheme was... Read More about The alchemy of translation in Hausa: cosmopolitanism, gatekeeping, and infrastructure in English-Hausa translation.

Embodying ‘Thainess’ and the post-2006 coup crisis in Buppesannivas (Love Destiny) (2024)
Journal Article
Boonhok, S. (2024). Embodying ‘Thainess’ and the post-2006 coup crisis in Buppesannivas (Love Destiny). South East Asia Research, 32(3), 304-323. https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2024.2436519

First televised in 2018, Buppesannivas (Love Destiny) was among the most popular and influential dramas in Thailand that represented images of Thainess (khwam-pen-Thai). Based on a novel by Rompaeng, it tells the story of a twenty-first-century woman... Read More about Embodying ‘Thainess’ and the post-2006 coup crisis in Buppesannivas (Love Destiny).

Indian Myth, Korean Wave, and ‘Thainess’: Politics of Hybridity in Thai Literature in the 21st Century (2024)
Journal Article
Boonhok, S. (online). Indian Myth, Korean Wave, and ‘Thainess’: Politics of Hybridity in Thai Literature in the 21st Century. TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1017/trn.2024.3

‘Thainess’ [khwam-pen-Thai] or Thai identity has long been a state-constructed ideology linked to nationalist sentiment. However, in the 21st century, internal politics and globalisation have come to challenge its monopoly. Against this backdrop, rei... Read More about Indian Myth, Korean Wave, and ‘Thainess’: Politics of Hybridity in Thai Literature in the 21st Century.

Hybridising Na(rra)tion: The Reinvention and Embodiment of ‘Thainess’ in Thai Literature after 2006 (2024)
Thesis
Boonhok, S. Hybridising Na(rra)tion: The Reinvention and Embodiment of ‘Thainess’ in Thai Literature after 2006. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis explores the reinvention of Thainess (khwam pen Thai) or national Thai identity in Thai literature after 2006, the year of the coup which overthrew Thaksin Shinawatra and led to decades-long political and ideological clashes. At the same... Read More about Hybridising Na(rra)tion: The Reinvention and Embodiment of ‘Thainess’ in Thai Literature after 2006.

Pain, Mother-daughter Relationships, and Subjectivity in Post-1980 Fictions by Chinese Women Writers (2023)
Thesis
Zhan, F. Pain, Mother-daughter Relationships, and Subjectivity in Post-1980 Fictions by Chinese Women Writers. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines the representations of women’s pains, subjectivities and motherdaughter relationships in fictional writing published between 1980 and 2020 by Chinese women writers. More specifically, this project addresses three issues prominent... Read More about Pain, Mother-daughter Relationships, and Subjectivity in Post-1980 Fictions by Chinese Women Writers.

The Fantastic World of the Bengali Roopkatha: Unpacking Gender, Generation and Genre (2023)
Thesis
Adhya, R. The Fantastic World of the Bengali Roopkatha: Unpacking Gender, Generation and Genre. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis explores a Bengali literary genre called the roopkatha, which has commonly been seen as a counterpart to English 'fairy tales' It traces its crystallisation from the oral tradition to becoming both anti-colonial, or 'Swadeshi', literature... Read More about The Fantastic World of the Bengali Roopkatha: Unpacking Gender, Generation and Genre.

Affects of Shame and the Postcolonial: Identity, Recognition and Belonging (2023)
Thesis
Kubin, K. Affects of Shame and the Postcolonial: Identity, Recognition and Belonging. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Inspired by the South African novelist and theorist, Zoë Wicomb, this doctoral thesis is based in the nexus of affect theory and post/de-colonial theory. My research was prompted by Wicomb’s observation in her seminal essay, “Shame and Identity,” tha... Read More about Affects of Shame and the Postcolonial: Identity, Recognition and Belonging.

Nature, Nurture and Nation in Folk Oralities in Thailand and Beyond (2023)
Thesis
Topoonyanont, W. S. Nature, Nurture and Nation in Folk Oralities in Thailand and Beyond. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines the interrelationships between humans and Nature1 as represented in the Thai folk oralities - from folk lullabies to rural belief systems. This includes a consideration of the portrayals of the archaic female guardian spirit (Mae... Read More about Nature, Nurture and Nation in Folk Oralities in Thailand and Beyond.

Remakes as Resistance: Japanese remakes of Korean television dramas 2008-2019 (2022)
Thesis
Stolyar, J. Remakes as Resistance: Japanese remakes of Korean television dramas 2008-2019. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

For years Japanese media, and in particular television, was ‘self-sufficient’. Local productions took up most of the broadcasting schedule on open channels, and foreign content was limited in amount and mainly broadcast on cable and satellite. The in... Read More about Remakes as Resistance: Japanese remakes of Korean television dramas 2008-2019.

Japanese Bangkok and Bangkok’s Japanese: the structures and practices of transnational belonging in a global city (2022)
Thesis
Mitski, A. I. Japanese Bangkok and Bangkok’s Japanese: the structures and practices of transnational belonging in a global city. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

In recent decades, Bangkok’s Japanese community has undergone an unprecedented growth, with its official numbers skyrocketing to over 70 thousand (Japanese MOFA data 2015) and the unofficial ones thought to exceed 100 thousand. The majority of that i... Read More about Japanese Bangkok and Bangkok’s Japanese: the structures and practices of transnational belonging in a global city.

Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema (2022)
Thesis
Yeung, S. Y. Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This project offers the framework of “semiotics of allegory” as an alternative to Fredric Jameson’s national allegory for studying non-Western cultural products by emphasising their plural meanings of signs and the importance of situating their readi... Read More about Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema.

Daryaganj’s Parallel Book History (2022)
Thesis
Dhingra, K. Daryaganj’s Parallel Book History. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kitab Bazaar is a local weekly informal market for used books that has been thriving on the streets of Old Delhi every Sunday for the past five decades, before it was closed by the Delhi Municipal Corporation and moved to a dif... Read More about Daryaganj’s Parallel Book History.

Reflections on Dialogue with The Divine: A Comparative Study (2022)
Thesis
al-Baroud, D. S. Reflections on Dialogue with The Divine: A Comparative Study. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis tackles the controversial concept of dialogue with the Divine in Sufi literature and its use as an indirect vehicle to transmit a mystically camouflaged social message. The in-depth study offers a modern theoretical framework that examine... Read More about Reflections on Dialogue with The Divine: A Comparative Study.

Moroccan subaltern voices narrated: the historical imaginary of race and the legacy of slavery in Rabbaj's Le Lutteur [The Wrestler] and El Hachimi’s Dhākirat al-narjis [The Daffodil’s Memory] (2021)
Journal Article
Goikolea-Amiano, I., & Simour, L. (2022). Moroccan subaltern voices narrated: the historical imaginary of race and the legacy of slavery in Rabbaj's Le Lutteur [The Wrestler] and El Hachimi’s Dhākirat al-narjis [The Daffodil’s Memory]. Social Identities, 28(1), 108-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2021.1987873

Nation in Moroccan historiography writings has traditionally been described as culturally, ethnically and racially homogeneous; an all-encompassing discourse that silences episodes about the historical legacy of slavery and racism in the country, and... Read More about Moroccan subaltern voices narrated: the historical imaginary of race and the legacy of slavery in Rabbaj's Le Lutteur [The Wrestler] and El Hachimi’s Dhākirat al-narjis [The Daffodil’s Memory].

Review of: Local Versions and the Global Impacts of Euro-African Memories: A Revision through Spanish Colonial Imprints. Culture and History Digital Journal. Vol. 9 No. 2 (2020). (2021)
Journal Article
Goikolea-Amiano, I. Review of: Local Versions and the Global Impacts of Euro-African Memories: A Revision through Spanish Colonial Imprints. Culture and History Digital Journal. Vol. 9 No. 2 (2020). Vegueta: Anuario de la Facultad de Geografía e Historia, 21(2), 205-211. https://doi.org/10.51349/veg.2021.2.08

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.