Scholar Molly Yarn identifies more than 60 women who have contributed to the history of the Bard’s works, and believes there are still more to find William Shakespeare Reviewing Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke’s illustrated edition of Shakespeare’s plays in 1869, an anonymous critic blamed “the numberless alterations, mutilations, corruptions, or whatever we may choose …
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Nigeria’s Chinua Achebe Remembered as ‘Trailblazer’ for African Literature
An event of “Reading on A Different Sita” held on 28th June 2012.
As a Mestiza I have no country, my homeland cast me out; yet all countries are mine because I am every woman’s sister or potential lover. (As a lesbian I have no race, my own people disclaim me; but I am all races because there is the queer of me in all races.) I …
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Salman Rushdie had to cancel his Jaipur Lit Fest trip. But he did make it to Delhi at the invitation of India Today Conclave in March 2012. But alas! Imran Khan cancelled his trip this time as he wasn’t willing to share the same platform of Liberty Verses with Salman Rushdie, a man who had …
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Ngugi’s ‘s Globalectics is a pleasure to read through. The writer had officially called for the abolition of the English department right after he joined University of Nairobi. He thought English did not deserve to be privileged as that only “reinforced the view that Europe was the center of the universe.” Ngugi has called for …
