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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. (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)
Journal Article
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.

Lineage and Legacy: Thomas Manning and the Early British Study of China, 1800-1830 (2020)
Thesis
Weech, E. Lineage and Legacy: Thomas Manning and the Early British Study of China, 1800-1830. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis provides the first full-length academic study of Thomas Manning (1772-1840), one of Britain’s first scholars of Chinese, using recently rediscovered archival materials to shed new light on his career and underlying motives and objectives.... Read More about Lineage and Legacy: Thomas Manning and the Early British Study of China, 1800-1830.