5 books set in Southern Africa worth reading
Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania… Here are five books we can recommend to take you on some journeys through Southern Africa.
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In the we and now: Becoming a feminist
Basil talks about her own politicization and analyses feminist dilemmas in the context of #MeToo and her co-creation of an issue of a leading fashion magazine with numerous other women who form a feminist circle of allies and actually have nothing to do with the fashion world.
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Whose is the world in world literature? On world literature and postcolonial studies
So many texts on the subject of world literature at some point indicate Goethe’s coining of Weltliteratur in 1827 as its origin story. This is to start the conversation within a European framing. But one could choose another point of departure. For instance: In 1907, Rabindranath Tagore, an enormously respected figure of Bengali literature, was asked to give a lecture on comparative literature. He chose instead to speak on vishwa sahitya.
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The Nickel Boys
In a grazing pasture on the North side of what was once the campus of the Nickel Academy for Boys, an archaeology student from the University of Florida stumbles across a field of bones: unmarked graves. She and her cohort are there to excavate the official graveyard of the school before the lands are developed into an office park. The small bones in the known cemetery are already suspiciously often fractured, suggesting breaks and injuries before death: what history of abuses does the field of unmarked bones testify to? Thus begins Colson Whitehead’s prizewinning novel The Nickel Boys.
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Race ≠ Rasse: 10 terms related to race that require sensitivity in translation
In this article, we look specifically at English and German, and discuss 10 terms related to race that are difficult to translate.
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Der weisse Fleck
If you’ve read an introduction to antiracist thinking already, Amjahid’s new book provides further insights and possible options for action in order to critically deal with one’s own position – especially as a white person.
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macht.sprache.: Behind the scenes – on the code of conduct, assessing translations and getting involved
This is the second time that we share a peek behind the scenes of our project macht.sprache. This time we explain some of the thoughts that went into the development of a code of conduct, the assessment system for translation examples, and how we’re hoping to motivate people to participate.
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A Burning
Megha Majumdar’s debut novel, A Burning, is a highly political – and at times disturbing – story about the desire for a life worth living, about power and corruption.
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Damn, she can understand me!
Florence Brokowski-Shekete was arguably the first Black German school district director. In her autobiographical work, Mist, die versteht mich ja! Aus dem Leben einer Schwarzen Deutschen (“Damn, she can understand me! From the Life of a Black German”), she recounts how she came to hold this position.
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SAND Call for Submissions
SAND 23 Submissions are open March 20 – April 10, 2021! Check out the call here.
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