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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Language and Literary Worldmaking in Southern Africa: The Case of Little Magazines
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The titles of literary journals in southern Africa tell an interesting story. We have, on the hand, all those irreducibly local and vernacular names: Voorslag (Durban 1926-1927), Izwi (Johannesburg 1971-1974), Charrua (Maputo 1984-1985), ...

    Fields of research Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  World Literature
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    East African literature on the market 2000-2010
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    PhD Erik Falk’s project “East African literature on the market 2000-2010” investigates the disjunctive relationship between literary markets for East African fiction in English. The study, which combines quantitative and qualitative methods, falls...

    Fields of research Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  World Literature,  Literature and publishing/booktrade and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    African Women Writers
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project explores transnational dynamics in the literary production of African women writers in Nigeria and Tanzania, with an emphasis on feminism and cosmopolitanism. Drawing on anthropological theory and method, it is an ethnographic study...

    Fields of research Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  World Literature and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019