Literature of the Indigenous Mahale – Haroonuzzaman
In all literatures, two streams are very common: written and oral. A nation or a race having a language with its alphabets and script has been able to create written literature while with an ethnic group, it is the…...
Bihari and Rohingya diaspora of Bangladesh – Mojaffor Hossain
Mojaffor Hossain is a notable fiction writer of contemporary Bangla literature. In this article, he explores diasporic literature of Bihari and Rohingya literature in Bangladesh...
Names and Bodies: Tales from Across the Sea – Dagmawi Yimer
Director Yimer presented the James K. Binder lecture entitled “Names and Bodies: Tales from the Other Side of the Sea” at UC San Diego, on May 6, 2015...
The Myth of American Nationhood – Nadia Benjelloun
From Tangier, Morocco, Nadia Benjelloun is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She graduated from the University of New England with a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies in May 2021 and has a forthcoming novel...
Icarus, Icarus – David Capps
One can only ever learn from myth by living it, which means that the myth of Icarus presents a double mystery: the first is that Icarus, unlike Lucifer, does not survive his fall, and second is that poetic treatments of the subject are already hopelessly distanced from it...
The Song of the Painter, Fikret Mualla – Nazli Karabiyikoglu
When restlessness is triggered by an internal glance at the self and the hours of stillness are transformed into long days of stillness through staring, a muscle twitches in the…...
Crossing the Wake – Elizabeth Wadsworth Ellis
Language is a usage-tool, not a parlor game I play by myself. Words flow unimpeded when I’m walking down the street by myself, fluent when there’s no one to pressure me or challenge me to conjure the right word without consequence...
Dalit Durdasha: Stories Narrating Plight of the Dalits – Anagha Kamble/Bhushan Arekar
Dalit Durdasha was a column of short stories published in the Janata newspaper written by Daultrao Gulaji Jadhav, a close associate of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. D.G. Jadhav was elected to the Bombay Legislature in 1937 from Khandesh as a…...
Dalit writing, global contexts: Re-examining the legacy of Lal Singh Dil, Punjab’s “Poet of the Revolution” – Yogesh Maitreya
Yogesh Maitreya is a poet, translator and founder of Panther's Paw Publication, an anti-caste publishing house. Here he reexamines Lal Singh Dil’s poetry that does not construct any imaginary utopia but speaks of experiences and ideals...