The article consists in a comparative reading of three novels: Um rio chamado tempo by Mia Couto, Le pain des corbeaux by Lhoussain Azergui and Paw królowej by Dorota Masłowska. In spite of the difference of the historical circumstances of Mozambique, Morocco and Poland, these three books meet at an intersecting point: the emergence of an i…[Read more]

Is There Tunisian Literature? Emergent Writing and Fractal Proliferation of Minor Voices.
The article presents the Tunisian literature from the non-local perspective of the global literary market and the circulation of translated literature. The minor status of the studied phenomenon becomes obvious even when the Tunisian literature is compared…[Read more]

Is There Tunisian Literature? Emergent Writing and Fractal Proliferation of Minor Voices.
The article presents the Tunisian literature from the non-local perspective of the global literary market and the circulation of translated literature. The minor status of the studied phenomenon becomes obvious even when the Tunisian literature is compared…[Read more]

Is There Tunisian Literature? Emergent Writing and Fractal Proliferation of Minor Voices.
The article presents the Tunisian literature from the non-local perspective of the global literary market and the circulation of translated literature. The minor status of the studied phenomenon becomes obvious even when the Tunisian literature is compared…[Read more]

Travelling away from the “artsy post-modern lefty-pinko university”.
Noor’s transcultural experience and the duties of the intellectual.

The volume Qur’an and cricket consists of several travelogues produced by a Malay intellectual, Farish A. Noor, during his trips to the most problematic places of the world, marked by the contemporary “ba…[Read more]

We, Portugal, the possibility of being. Virtual universalism as the result of the process of cultural self- mythification.

The article is divided in four parts. The first one contains the working hypothesis, associating Mensagem by Fernando Pessoa, the culminating formulation of the Portuguese self-mythification, with the trauma of Atlantic…[Read more]

We, Portugal, the possibility of being. Virtual universalism as the result of the process of cultural self- mythification.

The article is divided in four parts. The first one contains the working hypothesis, associating Mensagem by Fernando Pessoa, the culminating formulation of the Portuguese self-mythification, with the trauma of Atlantic…[Read more]