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… Princeton but left in 1917 to join the Army during World War I. He is most noted for his many novels and short stories …

… with UNESCO to have the memorial sites recognized as world heritage sites. The process involve filing documents, … in Africa and Europe. It is a two-year process, and by next year they will know whether they have been accepted or denied as world heritage sites. “How can we know what’s really …

… Society (2013) Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 antislavery novel  Uncle Tom’s Cabin  was the nineteenth century’s best-selling novel worldwide; only the Bible outsold it. It was known not … But how was Stowe’s novel—one of the watershed works of world literature—actually received outside of the American …

… Conversation Hour … Master’s Conversation Hour Location: Virtual see map   Event Type: Webinar   Event description: A webinar on … but wondering whether and when you should take this next step? Unsure what sorts of programs exist? Curious about …

… including a collection of short stories and her acclaimed novel  Noqra: The Daughter of Kabul River  (Rozgar … and the disabled. While at Yale, Qaderi is writing a novel, inspired largely by her own experiences, with the … Kabul suburbs who is kidnapped during the Soviet-Afghan war and taken to St. Petersburg. After the fall of the Soviet …

… Dialogues: Subjectivity and Memory in Post-Soviet Estonian Novel (in Estonian, Tallinn: UTKK, 2009) and co-editor of Novels, Histories, Novel Nations: Historical Fiction and Cultural Memory in … theories of subjectivity, autobiography and self-writing; world literature, transnational literature, and …

… at Yale University, will discuss the classic Ghanaian novel that inspired Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s ongoing series … will describe the history and context of Ayi Kweh Armah’s novel of Ghanaian independence, and explore some of its themes. In this visceral novel, filled with dirt and bodily fluids, Armah vividly …

… but personal. Before the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War that forced him to flee from Donetsk in 2014, Rafeyenko … in Russian. From his new home in Kyiv, he wrote his first novel in the Ukrainian language, Mondegreen: Songs About … crucial point in Ukrainian cultural life and history.  The event took place in Horchow Hall, on October 28, 2022 and was …

… literary studies - a field highly dependent on the novel - to begin paying attention to the short story. This … of questions than those that would be appropriate for the novel. Thus, for instance, the short story provides an … between the emergence of nation-states and the rise of the novel. My talk will focus on the short story in South Asia, …

… impact on women’s writing in Africa and around the world. She’ll discuss all three works in a career-spanning … Mellon director of the Yale Center for British Art. The event will also be livestreamed on the Yale Center for …

… impact on women’s writing in Africa and around the world. She’ll discuss all three works in a career-spanning … Mellon director of the Yale Center for British Art. The event will also be livestreamed on the Yale Center for …