Palestinian literature: a rich literary heritage from a nation in exile: Palestinian literature is unique. It stands apart for its ability to capture a nation’s identity in exile – shaped not by borders, but by memory, resistance and longing. The settings of modern Palestinian literature include Israel, the occupied territories, countries more broadly in the …
Why Taylor Swift belongs on English literature degree courses: Taylor Swift performs at Madison Square Garden in New York, 2019. Brian Friedman/Shutterstock When I started my podcast, Studies in Taylor Swift, in the spring of 2021, I felt that I was simultaneously helping to invent, and trying to catch up to, the academic discipline of …
Five works of Welsh gothic literature you should read this Halloween: Celebrate Nos Galan Gaeaf with some Welsh gothic fiction. zef art/Shutterstock Wales has sought to rediscover its identity and autonomy since the devolution referendum of 1997. Authors and publishers have embraced the gothic genre as a means of exploring Welsh language, culture and heritage …
Jon Fosse: Nobel prize in literature winner is a playwright who puts outsiders centre stage: When Jon Fosse receives this year’s Nobel prize in literature in December, it will be collected by a playwright and novelist whose work examines the lives of ordinary people on the outer reaches of society, trying to cope with the …
African Literature in the Digital Age: new book traces the role of the internet, queers and class: The first book-length study of digital literature in Africa has attracted a lot of academic attention. African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Kenya and Nigeria considers the role of the …
Before and after the Nakba: Palestinian literature of resistance and love for a lost homeland: Palestinian novelist and intellectual Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated by Mossad in 1972. Twitter When a society experiences oppression and trauma, literature helps its people by giving them a voice and reinforcing their identity. It gives the trauma those people have …
Roald Dahl: A brief history of sensitivity edits to children’s literature: Puffin Books have worked with the consultancy Inclusive Minds (who say they help publishers, authors and illustrators work towards authentic inclusion, accessibility, and diverse representation) to revise some of the language used in Roald Dahl’s books for children, more than 100 years after his …
Teaching the Holocaust through literature: four books to help young people gain deeper understanding: A survey commissioned in 2019 revealed the shocking result that over half of Britons did not know that at least six millions Jews had been murdered during the Holocaust. This result was all the more surprising given the fact that the …
Nobel prize in literature: Annie Ernaux and writing from experience: Marco Destefanis/Alamy The French author Annie Ernaux has won the 2022 Nobel prize in literature at the age of 82. Of the 119 awarded, Ernaux is only the 18th woman Nobel laureate in literature and the first French woman to have won the prize. The …
Persuasion: why the Netflix adaptation is actually worth a watch, according to a romantic literature expert: Nick Wall/Netflix SPOILER ALERT: this article contains plot references to Persuasion. So, the jury’s in. People really, really hate Netflix’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Austen’s last novel, the book follows the story of 27-year-old Anne Elliot eight years …
Four novelists, one ocean: how Indian Ocean literature can remap the world: A dhow ship in Stonetown Zanzibar. Shutterstock Novels make worlds. They create an intuitive sense and mental image of a place. And the senses of space produced by fiction shape how readers see the world itself, just like maps do. For early postcolonial …
Anne Frank’s diary at 75: why it holds a special place in Holocaust literature: Tony Baggett/Shutterstock The best-selling Canadian author Rosemary Sullivan recently declared that the case of Anne Frank’s betrayal had been solved. Anne and her family, in hiding in Amsterdam, had been denounced by one Arnold van den Bergh, a well-known notary and …
Literature from the Congo Basin offers ways to address the climate crisis: The Congo Basin's rainforests in central Africa are sometimes called Earth's second lungs (after the Amazon) because of its ability to store carbon. Guenterguni via Getty Images The African continent is responsible for only 2–3% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions from energy …
What’s missing from English literature at school – emotion: BearFotos/Shutterstock Reading fiction is an emotional experience. Feeling emotions – even negative emotions such as sadness – drives reading and helps us enjoy books. Research from the National Literacy Trust, a UK charity, has found that nearly 45% of children and young people said that reading …
Check out this Paternoster image: Image from page 238 of “Saturday review of politics, literature, science and art” (1855) Image by Internet Archive Book Images Identifier: saturdayreviewof9319unse Title: Saturday review of politics, literature, science and art Year: 1855 (1850s) Authors: Subjects: Publisher: [London : John W. Parker and Son] Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign …
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr: Senegalese novelist’s win is a landmark for African literature: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr on a TV show after winning the Prix Goncourt. Photo by Eric Fougere/Corbis via Getty Images The Prix Goncourt – the oldest and most prestigious literary prize in France – has been awarded to 31-year-old Mohamed Mbougar Sarr from Senegal. …
South Africa in the news: Abdulrazak Gurnah wins Nobel literature prize: Abdulrazak Gurnah is the first Black African writer to receive the Nobel prize in literature since Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka in 1986. | THE INDEPENDENT | The 2021 Nobel prize in Literature has been …: “South Africa” – BingNews Uplifting SA youth through science …
Check out this Paternoster image: Image from page 576 of “An introduction to English literature” (1902) Image by Internet Archive Book Images Identifier: introductionto00panc Title: An introduction to English literature Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: Pancoast, Henry Spackman, 1858-1928. [from old catalog] Subjects: English literature Publisher: New York, H. Holt and company Contributing Library: The Library …