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In Meera Syal’s semi-autobiographical novel, Meena Kumar is the only Indian girl in the former British mining village of Tollington. While her parents wait in vain for their daughter’s sudden and definitive metamorphosis into the model Indian girl, all Meena wants is to be a Tollington wench.
more...In Meera Syal’s semi-autobiographical novel, Meena Kumar is the only Indian girl in the former British mining village of Tollington. While her parents wait in vain for their daughter’s sudden and definitive metamorphosis into the model Indian girl, all Meena wants is to be a Tollington wench.
more...Issa, who lives in Frankfurt am Main, is pregnant and desperate. The situation with her child’s father is complicated as is with her mother. No longer knowing what to do, and at the urging of her mother, she flies to see her grandmother and great-grandmother in Cameroon.
more...Cahier d’un retour au pays natal by Aimé Césaire blows up literary and political categories: it is a long poem, but at times it reads like a manifesto; it describes the journey and the search for identity of a young man from Martinique, has autobiographical features, and yet is also a journey into the past that recalls, among other things, the transatlantic slave trade.
more...If your interests lie with the postcolonial, Shakespeare might seem like an unlikely port of call. Or rather, he might seem representative of a lot of the things a postcolonial approach would be interested in working against. He could, for instance, represent what needs to be removed in calls to ‘decolonize the university’: a dead […]
more...Like any respectable Indian family, the Shantis didn’t use the house kitchen, they cooked in their garage.
more...The postcolonial occupation with art enables a negotiation that positions itself permanently against the colonial gaze, and in doing so can actually be and become a form of resistance.
more...Within the framework of the Resonance program organized by the Goethe-Institutes in France, Justine Coquel and Anna von Rath chatted with Lucie Lamy, who, together with Jean-Philippe Rossignol, translated May Ayim’s works into French.
more...In Rowohlt Verlag’s newly launched series, rororo Entdeckungen, Magda Birkmann and Nicole Seifert select novels by remarkable but forgotten female authors from the twentieth century for publication. Last week we had the pleasure of talking to Magda Birkmann about this series and the novel Daddy was a number runner (Eine Tochter Harlems) by Louise Meriwether.
more...On 20 September 2023, we spoke with Mithu Sanyal and Alta L. Price as part of our event series “Author meets Translator”. You can read the conversation here.
more...One of our aims with poco.lit. is to try to demystify some of the core ideas in and around postcolonial studies. Here we’ve compiled 7 introductory essays that discuss different aspects of postcolonialism.
more...If you are interested in postcolonial literature but don’t really know where to begin, we put together a list of 5 postcolonial classics for you.
more...The editors and some authors of poco.lit. share their favorite books of 2023 – five books by incredibly talented writers from around the world.
more...For our online magazine, we are looking for contributions on the topic of “Ideas that Travel”.
more...Anna von Rath and Lucy Gasser co-founded poco.lit. and macht.sprache. These projects involved a lot of research, conversations with experts, workshops and inputs for different target audiences. Many of the discussions and learnings can soon be found in their book Macht Sprache. Ein Manifest für mehr Gerechtigkeit. The book will be published on August 1, 2024.
more...In 2024 we will start a new project with the kind support of the Lotto Foundation Berlin: [poco.lit. space]. We want to create various spaces to discuss and learn about postcolonialism. One of these spaces will be our online magazine and we are looking for your contributions. This is our first call for submissions, more will follow throughout the next year.
more...Join us for an online lecture with Ervin Malakaj about literature in, not of, Germany on zoom on June, 4.
more...We could introduce Sharon Dodua Otoo by way of the many prestigious accolades she has received, but really her work speaks for itself. At poco.lit. we’ve been fans of her work for a long time and are delighted to present a conversation between her and her talented translator Jon Cho Polizzi as part of our event series “author meets translator”. We’ll be talking about the novel Adas Raum (Ada’s Room/Ada’s Realm), about humour, Berliner Schnauze, and doing politics in language and literature. Join us!
more...A warm invitation to the next “Author meets Translator” event: A conversation with Marion Kraft and Eva Bonné about politically sensitive writing and translation.
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