Book Series
- World Oral Literature Series vol. 12
- ISSN Print: 2050-7933
- ISSN Digital: 2054-362X
Copyright
Sara Marzagora; Francesca Orsini. Copyright of individual chapters are maintained by the chapter author(s).Published On
2025-01-31ISBN
Language
- English
Print Length
364 pages (xviii+346)Dimensions
Weight
Media
Funding
- European Research Council
- Grant: 670876
OCLC Number
1493372212THEMA
- NHTD
- JBGB
- AFKP
- DSM
- JBCC1
BISAC
- FIC059100
- SOC011000
- PER000000
- LIT020000
Keywords
- World Literature
- Orature
- Oral Traditions
- Folklore
- Vernacular Genres
- performance
- popular culture
- textual circulation
Oral Literary Worlds
Location, Transmission and Circulation
Additional Resources
Contents
Foreword
(pp. 1–4)- Mark Turin
- Sara Marzagora
- Francesca Orsini
- Clarissa Vierke
- Assefa Tefera Dibaba
- Adugna Barkessa
- Ayele Kebede
4. Fluid Texts: Bhojpuri Songs and World Literature
(pp. 145–168)- Francesca Orsini
5. Erasure and Rehabilitation of the Halqa in Morocco: The Vicissitudes of an Intangible Cultural Heritage
(pp. 169–184)- Fatima Zahra Salih
- Desta Desalegn Dinege
- Yenealem Aredo
- Tadesse Jaleta Jirata
- Vanessa Paloma Elbaz
- Sadhana Naithani
10. Morocco’s Popular Culture Powerhouse: Darija and the chaabi music of Nas El Ghiwane
(pp. 281–300)- Karima Laachir
11. Dissenting Voices of Cairo: Sheikh Imam, Ahmad Fu’ad Negm, and their Legacy in the Contemporary Music Scene
(pp. 301–336)- Virginia Pisano
Contributors
Sara Marzagora
(editor)Sara Marzagora is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Comparative Literature at King’s College London. Previously she held a four-year postdoctoral fellowship at SOAS University of London, where she led the Horn of Africa strand of the MULOSIGE research project. Sara specialises in world literature and global intellectual history, with a particular focus on Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. Her research on Ethiopian print culture, Amharic literature, and the history of Ethiopian nationalism has appeared, among others, in the Journal of African History, Global Intellectual History, the International History Review, the Journal of African Cultural Studies, and the Journal of World Literature. She is currently completing a monograph on early twentieth-century Ethiopian political thought, and co-editing a volume which compares literary and policy perspectives on multilingualism in the Horn of Africa and South Asia.
Francesca Orsini
(editor)Francesca Orsini is a literary historian interested in bringing a located and multilingual perspective to Indian literary history and world literature. She is the author of The Hindi Public Sphere (2002), Print and Pleasure (2009), and East of Delhi: Multilingual literary culture and world literature (2023), and the editor of, among others, Tellings and Texts: Singing, Story-telling and Performance in North India (with Katherine B. Schofield, 2015), and The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form (2022, with Neelam Srivastava and Laetitia Zecchini). She led the ERC-funded research project Multilingual Locals and Significant Geographies: for a new approach to world literature, from the perspective of North India, the Maghreb, and the Horn of Africa. She co-edits with Debjani Ganguly the series Cambridge Studies in World Literatures and Cultures, and with Whitney Cox the forthcoming Cambridge History of Indian Literature. She is Professor emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature at SOAS, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy.