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The alchemy of translation in Hausa: cosmopolitanism, gatekeeping, and infrastructure in English-Hausa translation (2025)
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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)
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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)
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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.

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)
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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)
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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

Al-Shaikh Māʾ al-ʿAynayn: Maghrebi-Saharan literary geographies on the eve of colonization (2020)
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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)
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Yeung, J. S.-Y. (in press). 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.

Historizar para decolonizar (2020)
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Goikolea-Amiano, I. (in press). Historizar para decolonizar. Ayer (Madrid), 117, 1407

This article focuses on the so-called «decolonial epistemic turn» which developed in the last two decades in Latin America and which has recently inspired works on Islamic issues in western Europe. I focus on the historical genealogies and concepts w... Read More about Historizar para decolonizar.

Swahili and Swahili poetry in Lubumbashi: The language and lyrics of Sando Marteau (2018)
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Rettová, A. (2018). Swahili and Swahili poetry in Lubumbashi: The language and lyrics of Sando Marteau. Archiv orientální, 86(3), 333-362

The article introduces the singer and poet from Lubumbashi, known under the artistic name of Sando Marteau, and presents some of the poet’s lyrics. These texts serve as the basis of an exposition of the variety of Swahili spoken in Katanga, “Lubumbas... Read More about Swahili and Swahili poetry in Lubumbashi: The language and lyrics of Sando Marteau.

Significant Geographies: in lieu of world literature (2018)
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Laachir, K., Marzagora, S., & Orsini, F. (in press). Significant Geographies: in lieu of world literature. Journal of World Literature, 3(3), 290-310. https://doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00303005

One of the problems with current theories of world literature is that the term “world” is insufficiently probed and theorized. As a category, “world” is too generic and suggests a continuity and seamlessness that are both deceptive and self-fulfillin... Read More about Significant Geographies: in lieu of world literature.

Hispano-Moroccan Mimesis in the Spanish War on Tetouan and its Occupation (1859-62) (2018)
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Goikolea-Amiano, I. (in press). Hispano-Moroccan Mimesis in the Spanish War on Tetouan and its Occupation (1859-62). The Journal of North African Studies, 24(1), 44-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2018.1459092

The ‘War of Africa’/‘War of Tetouan’ (1859–60) and the subsequent Spanish occupation of Tetouan (1860–62) have commonly been considered a historical landmark signalling the end of Morocco’s independence. While it is hardly arguable that Spain consoli... Read More about Hispano-Moroccan Mimesis in the Spanish War on Tetouan and its Occupation (1859-62).

The Amāra on the Square: Connective Agency and the Aesthetics of the Egyptian Revolution (2017)
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El-Desouky, A. (2017). The Amāra on the Square: Connective Agency and the Aesthetics of the Egyptian Revolution. Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest, 5(1), 51-83. https://doi.org/10.3167/cont.2017.050105

During and immediately after the Egyptian revolution of 2011, the creative impulse that accompanied social and political demands shifted toward a collective sense of regained agency, or “connective agency.” The spontaneous acts of mobilization, artwo... Read More about The Amāra on the Square: Connective Agency and the Aesthetics of the Egyptian Revolution.

Time as Myth, Time as History in Afrophone Novels on Ujamaa (Tanzanian Socialism) and the Second Chimurenga/Umvukela (Zimbabwean Liberation War) (2016)
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Rettová, A. (2016). Time as Myth, Time as History in Afrophone Novels on Ujamaa (Tanzanian Socialism) and the Second Chimurenga/Umvukela (Zimbabwean Liberation War). Comparative Literature, 68(4), 389-407. https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-3698477

A central discussion in African Philosophy concerns the “African concept of time,” famously theorized by John S. Mbiti. Mbiti makes a distinction between a circular and a linear concept of time, associating the former with Africa and the latter with... Read More about Time as Myth, Time as History in Afrophone Novels on Ujamaa (Tanzanian Socialism) and the Second Chimurenga/Umvukela (Zimbabwean Liberation War).

¿Empoderamiento y sumisión a Dios? La acción pía en las nuevas musulmanas del siglo XXI (2016)
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Goikolea-Amiano, I. (2016). ¿Empoderamiento y sumisión a Dios? La acción pía en las nuevas musulmanas del siglo XXI. Feminismo/s (San Vicente del Raspeig), 191-211. https://doi.org/10.14198/fem.2016.28.08

La ‘agencia’ o la capacidad de decisión y acción ha constituido un tema central en el seno de los estudios y el activismo feminista. Tomando como punto de partida la propuesta de Saba Mahmood este artículo tiene como objetivo, por un lado, mostrar la... Read More about ¿Empoderamiento y sumisión a Dios? La acción pía en las nuevas musulmanas del siglo XXI.