Google Doodle Celebrates Cordel Literature, a Popular Brazilian Literary Genre; Here are Some Interesting Facts

Today’s Google Doodle honors cordel literature, a popular literary genre in Brazil that consists of rhyming poems that are typically shown hanging from ropes and illustrated with woodcuts. This Doodle celebrates cordel, a form of narrative folk poetry that …

Estlit editor-in-chief: New magazine like a business card for Estonian literature abroad

Speaking on Klassikaraadio, Kristjan Haljak, editor-in-chief of Estlit, the newly-launched English-language magazine dedicated to Estonian literature, said Estlit is essential and will act as a way for helping international publishers and authors to find …

Black Literature: Beyond Bourgeois Pleading and “Achievement”

In addition, working-class Black people (who make up the large majority of Black people in America) have a unique culture, developed and recorded mainly through the Black church and folklore. Wright recounts how, through the church, Black people “first …

New York Black & African Literature Fesitval Debuts in September

A new literary festival titled The New York Black & African Literature Festival  (NYBALF) will host writers, poets, public intellectuals, artists, and community organizers from Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Americas in New York from September …

Giant of African literature Ngugi waThiong’o remembered as fierce writer

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, who died aged 87, was a titan of modern African literature – a storyteller who refused to be bound by jail and exile. His work spanned roughly six decades, primarily documenting the transformation of his country – Kenya – from a colonial …

What timeless literature tells us about injustice, war and human nature

A work of literature is called great when it remains contemporaneous across time spans and ages. In our civilisation, the Mahabharata is one such epic. One can spend a lifetime poring over the plots and subplots of this epic, examining the complexity of …

Feature: Digital storytelling adds new appeal to night tours at Vietnam's Temple of Literature

HANOI, June 8 (Xinhua) -- In the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, the Temple of Literature, known locally as Van Mieu, has begun using digital projection technologies to present its cultural heritage in a new light, drawing growing interest from both local and …

‘What unites the Kannada world is an admiration for vachana literature’: Writer Srikar Raghavan

As may be expected, reviews of Rama Bhima Soma: Cultural Investigations into Modern Karnataka have focused on the vast and varied connections between life and literature, and state and society, that the book has aimed to chronicle. Karnataka, the home …

India News | Uttarakhand Government Announces New Initiatives to Promote Literature and Culture

Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], June 8 (ANI): Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said that the state government is committed to the preservation and promotion of literature and culture. He said the government has initiated steps to honour …

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