While varied forms of migration have always existed, the last few
decades have witnessed vast displacements and resettlements of
many populations. World and ethnic wars, the dissolution of nations,
environmental ...
The dynamic between viewer and art object is central to Eva Hesse’s oeuvre.
In writing about Hesse’s sculpture through the viewer’s experience of the work, I
demonstrate the experiential and embodied nature of viewership. ...
In my essay I explore the relationship between Mongo Beti's polemical essay Afrique Noire, Littérature Rose and his book Mission Terminée. In the essay Beti assumes a strictly anticolonial stance and insists,
perhaps ...
In 1973, a British publisher asked American novelist Paul Bowles, then in Tangier, to ask Moroccan Amazigh writer Mohamed Choukri for an autobiography. Bowles had some experience translating oral narratives, but since he ...
I examine the intersection of childhood and death in four works of modern French literature and film: La Maison de Claudine (Colette),
W… (Perec), Les Mots ( Sartre), and Jeux interdits (Clément). Drawing on the French ...