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.

Sep 17

Sep 17 Giles Gunn’s ‘Ideas to Live For’

Alvan Azinna Ikoku

Ethics

In Ideas to Live For, Giles Gunn asks whether and how our sense of the human might be reconstructed, not around suspicion or antipathy toward others, but around an epistemological and moral need of them.

Jan 13

Jan 13 Hector Hoyos’ ‘Beyond Bolaño’

Alvan Azinna Ikoku

Literatures in Spanish

In Beyond Bolaño, Hector Hoyos defines new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era, calling attention to fresh innovations in form, voice, perspective, and representation that affirm the lead role of Latin American authors in reshaping world literature.