Outputs (200)

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.

History in twentieth-century Ethiopia: The ‘Great Tradition’ and the counter-histories of national failure (2017)
Journal Article
Marzagora, S. (in press). History in twentieth-century Ethiopia: The ‘Great Tradition’ and the counter-histories of national failure. The Journal of African History, 58(3), 425-444. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853717000342

A Review of Hu Ying’s Burying Autumn: Poetry, Friendship, and Loss. Cambridge, United States: Harvard University Asia Center, 2016 (2017)
Journal Article
Yeung, J. S.-Y. (in press). A Review of Hu Ying’s Burying Autumn: Poetry, Friendship, and Loss. Cambridge, United States: Harvard University Asia Center, 2016. Life Writing, 16(3), 487-490. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2017.1383844

The Amāra on the Square: Connective Agency and the Aesthetics of the Egyptian Revolution (2017)
Journal Article
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.

IABA Graduate Student and New Scholar Forum: Remaking Obscure Lives as Prosopography in Blogazine (2017)
Journal Article
Yeung, J. S.-Y. (2017). IABA Graduate Student and New Scholar Forum: Remaking Obscure Lives as Prosopography in Blogazine. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 32(2), 406-407. https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2017.1289044

Collaboration and Cultural Production in Hyde Park Gate News and The Charleston Bulletin (2017)
Journal Article
Yeung, J. S.-Y. (2017). Collaboration and Cultural Production in Hyde Park Gate News and The Charleston Bulletin. Virginia Woolf miscellany, 89, 14-16

Interrogating Cross-Cultural Dialogue : Histories and Techniques of Representation in Post-Colonial Literature (1954-2001) (2017)
Thesis
Guarnieri, A. Interrogating Cross-Cultural Dialogue : Histories and Techniques of Representation in Post-Colonial Literature (1954-2001). (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Chapter 18: Mauritania (2017)
Book Chapter
Blalack, J. S. (2017). Chapter 18: Mauritania. In W. S. Hassan (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions (325-337). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199349791.013.21

This chapter traces the origins of the novel genre in Mauritania. It first considers the cultural and historical context of the emergence of the Mauritanian novel, focusing on its link to the rise of Nouakchott as the country’s capital. It then discu... Read More about Chapter 18: Mauritania.

Performing immobility : the individual-collective body and the representation of confined subjectivities in contemporary Palestinian theatre (2017)
Thesis
Fernandez Ramos, I. Performing immobility : the individual-collective body and the representation of confined subjectivities in contemporary Palestinian theatre. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Time as Myth, Time as History in Afrophone Novels on Ujamaa (Tanzanian Socialism) and the Second Chimurenga/Umvukela (Zimbabwean Liberation War) (2016)
Journal Article
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).

戰後初期 (1945-68年)臺灣小學地理知識傳授中的家國想像 (2016)
Book Chapter
Chang, B.-Y. (2016). 戰後初期 (1945-68年)臺灣小學地理知識傳授中的家國想像. In C.-L. Mei, & P.-Y. Lin (Eds.), 交界與游移：跨文史的文化傳譯與知識生產 [Cross-border and Migration: Cultural Translation and Knowledge Production] (335-366). Rye Field 麥田

¿Empoderamiento y sumisión a Dios? La acción pía en las nuevas musulmanas del siglo XXI (2016)
Journal Article
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.

Novel in African Languages (2016)
Book Chapter
Rettová, A. (2016). Novel in African Languages. In S. Gikandi (Ed.), Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 11 - The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 (71-86). Oxford University Press

Writing in the Swing? Neo-Realism in Post-Experimental Swahili fiction (2016)
Journal Article
Rettová, A. (2016). Writing in the Swing? Neo-Realism in Post-Experimental Swahili fiction. Research in African literatures, 47(3), 15-31. https://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.47.3.02

This article traces the history of the Swahili novel in its development from realism to experimental prose, and following the experimental phase back to realism in the recent works of some of the former literary experimentators. This trend is called... Read More about Writing in the Swing? Neo-Realism in Post-Experimental Swahili fiction.

Comparative Literature and the Position of the Critic (2016)
Book Chapter
Rettová, A. (2016). Comparative Literature and the Position of the Critic. In L. Loveday, & E. Parpală (Eds.), Ways of Being in Cultural and Literary Spaces (206-217). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Ben’s fairy tales: how The Storyteller sheds new light on Walter Benjamin’s philosophy (2016)
Journal Article
Yeung, J. S.-Y. (in press). Ben’s fairy tales: how The Storyteller sheds new light on Walter Benjamin’s philosophy

From Mimesis to Mize. Philosophical Implications of Departures from Literary Realism (2016)
Book Chapter
Rettová, A. (2016). From Mimesis to Mize. Philosophical Implications of Departures from Literary Realism. In C. Vierke, & K. Greven (Eds.), Dunia Yao. Utopia/Dystopia in Swahili Fiction (113-146). Rüdiger Köppe Verlag

Borderland Historiography in Pakistan (2016)
Journal Article
Caron, J. (in press). Borderland Historiography in Pakistan. South Asian History and Culture, 7(4), 327-345. https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2016.1223716

In this article I survey historical writing related to the twentieth-century Afghan-Pakistan frontier, particularly Pashtun-majority locations in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: the former Northwest Frontier Province. I focus on works that help conceptualize his... Read More about Borderland Historiography in Pakistan.

The humanism of reconstruction: African intellectuals, decolonial critical theory and the opposition to the ‘posts’ (postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism) (2016)
Journal Article
Marzagora, S. (in press). The humanism of reconstruction: African intellectuals, decolonial critical theory and the opposition to the ‘posts’ (postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism). Journal of African Cultural Studies, 28(2), 161-178. https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2016.1152462

This article traces the mixed fortunes of what intellectuals like Paul Tiyambe Zeleza refer to as the ‘posts’ (poststructuralism, postmodernism and postcolonialism) in African studies. It documents the historical processes and intellectual developmen... Read More about The humanism of reconstruction: African intellectuals, decolonial critical theory and the opposition to the ‘posts’ (postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism).

Journal of African Cultural Studies. Special issue on African Philosophy. (2016)
Other
(2016). Journal of African Cultural Studies. Special issue on African Philosophy. London