Mar 10

Mar 10 Edward Wilson-Lee’s ‘Shakespeare in Swaziland’

In Shakespeare in Swaziland, Edward Wilson-Lee presents us with a fascinating book to coincide with the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death this April 2016: a vast tracing of Shakespeare as a global poet; a sequence of stories and travels from Zanzibar, through to Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Sudan.

Jan 18

Jan 18 Aamir Mufti’s ‘Forget English!’

Alvan Azinna Ikoku

Literatures in English

In Forget English! Aamir Mufti scrutinizes the claims made on behalf of world literature, arguing that at the center of its very possibility as a borderless, egalitarian and global body of writings remains the dominance of English — as a literary language, a cultural system of international reach, and the undisputed vernacular of global capitalism.

May 12

May 12 Saikat Majumdar’s ‘Prose of the World’

Alvan Azinna Ikoku

Literatures in English

In Prose of the World, Saikat Majumdar suggests that the impoverished affective experience of modernity, as felt in colonial settings, significantly shaped the innovative aesthetics we have come to see as a hallmark of modernist fiction.