Sunday, 20 December 2020

FOOD CULTURE IN SPOTLIGHT ON UNESCO HERITAGE LIST

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Cuisine formed a notable portion of the latest inscriptions on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity,...
Thursday, 3 December 2020

OPINION: AMERICAN (PAY) DIRT - OR MIGRATION FICTIONS

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By Dimitri Keramitas American Dirt , Jeannine Cummins’ controversial bestseller about Latin American migrants, human traffickers, and narc...
Sunday, 15 November 2020

ECUADORIAN DIRECTOR SHOWS A DIFFERENT MIGRATION

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Ecuador’s entry for the 2021 Academy Awards’ International Feature section is a surprising movie, highlighting a story that up to now has be...
Thursday, 5 November 2020

A FOCUS ON TRANSLATING HAITIAN LIT INTO ENGLISH

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If you’re looking for works by Haitian writers translated into English, it’s highly likely you’ll come across texts by American translator N...
Wednesday, 7 October 2020

FANON 'LIVES' IN GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY, OUT IN FRANCE

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The graphic biography Frantz Fanon hit bookshops this autumn, in a year that has seen a renewed focus on colonialism and the combat for equ...
Friday, 25 September 2020

CONGOLESE 'KINGS' OF ART ON EXHIBITION IN PARIS

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Chéri Samba has a sly sense of humour, both in person and in his work. Standing in front of his 2018 painting “J'aime le jeu de relais” ...
Monday, 7 September 2020

SCHOLAR EXPLORES CARIBBEAN LITERARY TRANSLATION

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(This is the second article in SWAN’s series on translators of Caribbean literature.) Laëtitia Saint-Loubert is a French translator and a...