This strand explores multilingualism’s revolutionary potential and creative force in language, literature, thought and the visual arts. Using the modern period (from the long nineteenth century to the twenty-first century) as the temporal framework, it examines the flowering of multilingualism inherent in a single linguistic system and one regional cultural complex, and the impact of this on linguistic, literary and cultural creativity. Creative multilingualism, conceived as the novel ways of thinking engendered in imaginative works emerging from engagement with more than one language, will inform new ways of thinking and writing about the creative impetus, underpinning any form of multilingualism and about its role in literary innovation in world literatures.
The investigators will collaborate with the English PEN to engage with authors who draw on more than one language, and with Haggerston School to explore the creative effects of multilingualism in literary composition with year 10 students.
Blog posts on World Literatures
Poetics of Exile: the “Ruins” of Homeland
Poetry in Translation, Poetics of Translation
Conference review: Performing Multilingualism in World Literatures
Multilingual poetry workshops with the London Centre for Languages & Cultures
Multilingualisms in World Literature Conference
Celebrating linguistic diversity through multilingual poetry
Creativity and World Literatures: Languages in Dialogue Workshop
The Arabian Nights and the Craft of Storytelling
Publications
Hiddleston, J; Lyamlahy, K. Abdelkebir Khatibi: Postcolonialism, Transnationalism and Culture in the Maghreb and Beyond. Liverpool University Press. Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures Series. Forthcoming October 2020.
Hiddleston, J, ed. Multilingual Literature as World Literature. Forthcoming.
Hiddleston, J. Writing After Postcolonialism: Francophone North African Literature in Transition. Bloomsbury Academic. New Horizons in Contemporary Writing Series. 2017.
Hiddleston, J. “Abdellatif Laabi, 'la chair vive du poeme': Reading 'Race' through Fanon”. Yale French Studies. 2019.
Parr, N. “The Palestinian Novel from 1948 to the Present (review)”. Arab Studies Journal. 2019.
Parr, N. “Ibrahim Nasrallah's Palestine Comedies: Liberating the Nation Form”. Journal of Palestine Studies. 2019.
Parr, N. “No More “Eloquent Silence”: Narratives of Occupation, Civil War, and Intifada Write Everyday Violence and Challenge Trauma Theory.” Middle East – Topics & Arguments. 2018.
Parr, N. “Arabic literature for the classroom: teaching methods, theories, themes and texts (review)”. Middle Eastern Literatures. 2018.
