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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.

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.

Pakistan's Cold War(s) and International Law (2019)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2019). Pakistan's Cold War(s) and International Law. In M. Craven, S. Pahuja, & S. Gerry (Eds.), International Law and the Cold War (447-466). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108615525.020

Against a great deal of contemporary Cold War scholarship, this chapter argues that Pakistan’s complex relations with the United States—as well as with the Soviet Union, China, India and Afghanistan—place it firmly at the centre of global Cold War po... Read More about Pakistan's Cold War(s) and International Law.

(Re)canonizing World Literature with Digital Archives and Online Magazines from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China (2019)
Book Chapter
Yeung, J. S.-Y. (2019). (Re)canonizing World Literature with Digital Archives and Online Magazines from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China. In A. Pilsch, & S. Ross (Eds.), Humans at Work in the Digital Age: Forms of Digital Textual Labor (223-238). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429244599-17

This chapter argues that digital labor plays a pivotal role in the worlding mechanism of regional and national literatures in the East Asian context. Yeung probes the role of digital labor in canonizing Third-World literature, or what she conceives a... Read More about (Re)canonizing World Literature with Digital Archives and Online Magazines from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China.

Czechoslovakia’s Swahilists: Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková (2019)
Book Chapter
Rettová, A. (2019). Czechoslovakia’s Swahilists: Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková. In F. Aiello, & R. Gaudioso (Eds.), Lugha na Fasihi : Scritti in onore e memoria di / Essays in honour and memory of Elena Bertoncini Zúbková (543-550). Unior Press

Longing for Salmá and Hind : (Re)producing Arabic Literature in 18th and 19th-Century North India (2019)
Thesis
Leese, S. Longing for Salmá and Hind : (Re)producing Arabic Literature in 18th and 19th-Century North India. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Arabic writing is an important but neglected aspect of Indian cultural history. Likewise, being on the Arabic “periphery”, India is almost always overlooked in histories of Arabic literature. As a two-pronged intervention to these fields, this thesis... Read More about Longing for Salmá and Hind : (Re)producing Arabic Literature in 18th and 19th-Century North India.

Beyond the “Bhai-Bhai” Rhetoric : China-India Literary Relations, 1950-1990 (2019)
Thesis
Jia, Y. Beyond the “Bhai-Bhai” Rhetoric : China-India Literary Relations, 1950-1990. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines the multi-layered relationship between the literary spheres of the People’s Republic of China (1949-) and the Republic of India (1947-) from the 1950s to the 1980s. Drawing on previously underexplored materials in Chinese, Hindi,... Read More about Beyond the “Bhai-Bhai” Rhetoric : China-India Literary Relations, 1950-1990.

Mapping the Migrant City: Presentations of the Migrant Experience in the Contemporary European Novel 1995-2015 (2019)
Thesis
Grahl, F. Mapping the Migrant City: Presentations of the Migrant Experience in the Contemporary European Novel 1995-2015. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis is a comparative investigation into contemporary novels of migration to three European capital cities: London, Paris and Rome. It uses a range of approaches to analyse the tripartite relationship between the novel, the city and the lived... Read More about Mapping the Migrant City: Presentations of the Migrant Experience in the Contemporary European Novel 1995-2015.

Swahili and Swahili poetry in Lubumbashi: The language and lyrics of Sando Marteau (2018)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Politics of Repositioning and State Spatiality: From ‘Xiangtu China’ to ‘Oceanic Taiwan’ (2018)
Book Chapter
Chang, B.-Y. (2018). Politics of Repositioning and State Spatiality: From ‘Xiangtu China’ to ‘Oceanic Taiwan’. In C. Storm (Ed.), Connecting Taiwan: Participation – Integration – Impacts (41-60). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351268967-3

The constant repositioning and re-enunciation of Taiwan in its national imagination since the 1990s reveals a process of re-centering the island’s spatial self in the world. This chapter examines Taiwan’s metaphorical severance from China and place-m... Read More about Politics of Repositioning and State Spatiality: From ‘Xiangtu China’ to ‘Oceanic Taiwan’.

Hispano-Moroccan Mimesis in the Spanish War on Tetouan and its Occupation (1859-62) (2018)
Journal Article
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).

Ann Hui’s Allegorical Cinema (2018)
Book Chapter
Yeung, J. S.-Y. (in press). Ann Hui’s Allegorical Cinema. In J. S. Polley, V. W. Poon, & L.-H. Wee (Eds.), Cultural Conflict in Hong Kong: Angles on a Coherent Imaginary (87-104). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7766-1_6

Yeung argues that Ann Hui’s co-produced films in her post-CEPA oeuvre embody a framework of “allegorical cinema.” Yeung theorizes this framework with reference to Walter Benjamin’s “baroque allegory,” Ackbar Abbas’s “cinema of the fragment as a natio... Read More about Ann Hui’s Allegorical Cinema.

Archaism as Cultural Distinction: Woodblock book publishing during the Mao Era 1949-1976 (2018)
Thesis
Yang, Y. Archaism as Cultural Distinction: Woodblock book publishing during the Mao Era 1949-1976. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This PhD thesis examines woodblock book publishing during the radical years of Mao’s life time, when thread-bound books were criticised as representing the symbol of the old literati culture by the CCP government. This very political authority parado... Read More about Archaism as Cultural Distinction: Woodblock book publishing during the Mao Era 1949-1976.