Angelo Soliman: desecrated bodies and the spectre of Enlightenment racism by Iris Wigger, Spencer Hadley

“…The piece then reflects on contemporary attempts to retell his story – via museum exhibitions, literature and film – some of which started to critically reflect on age-old European stereotypes of blackness used in earlier representations of Soliman. …”
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Tales of Darkness and Light: Soso Tham's The Old Days of the Khasis (PDF) by Soso Tham, Janet Hujon

“…Poet of landscape, myth and memory, Soso Tham paid rich and poignant tribute to his tribe in his masterpiece The Old Days of the Khasis. Janet Hujon’s vibrant new translation presents the English reader with Tham’s long poem, which keeps a rich cultural tradition of the Khasi people alive through its retelling of old narratives and acts as a cultural signpost for their literary identity. …”
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Tales of Darkness and Light: Soso Tham's The Old Days of the Khasis (XML) by Soso Tham, Janet Hujon

“…Poet of landscape, myth and memory, Soso Tham paid rich and poignant tribute to his tribe in his masterpiece The Old Days of the Khasis. Janet Hujon’s vibrant new translation presents the English reader with Tham’s long poem, which keeps a rich cultural tradition of the Khasi people alive through its retelling of old narratives and acts as a cultural signpost for their literary identity. …”
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A different kind of harvest: Contemporary women novelists respond to Ruth by Mary Brewer

“…Etzioni-Halevy writes from the perspective of a Jewish woman living in the Middle East; van Niekerk offers a post-colonial rendering of the story, while Afshar re-views Ruth’s story through a Christian lens. …”
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The Scientific Revolution Revisited (PDF) by Mikuláš Teich

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Irish rioters, Latin American dictators, and desperate optimists’ Play-boy by Neal Swettenham

“…Synge humorously illustrated this in The Playboy of the Western World, in which his central character, Christy Mahon, reinvents himself through the telling and retelling of his own story. Play-boy, a much more recent performance work created by Desperate Optimists, takes as its opening gambit the riots that accompanied the first performances of this controversial Irish classic and adds a bewildering variety of other narrative materials to the mix – providing, as it does so, a tongue-in-cheek commentary on this story about stories. …”
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The effect of a computer-based cartooning tool on children’s cartoons and written stories by Mark Madden, Paul Chung, Christian Dawson

“…The tool attempts to provide users with more opportunities for expressive visualisation than previous educational software; its design was motivated by earlier work connecting “moving image literacy” with print literacy, and it was used here in storywriting preparation work: users first visualised a known story, then wrote their versions of it based on the cartoons they had made. …”
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William Sharp and “Fiona Macleod”: A Life (PDF) by William F. Halloran

“…Enlisting his sister to provide the Macleod handwriting, he used the voluminous Fiona correspondence to fashion a distinctive personality for a talented, but remote and publicity-shy woman. …”
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William Sharp and “Fiona Macleod”: A Life (XML) by William F. Halloran

“…Enlisting his sister to provide the Macleod handwriting, he used the voluminous Fiona correspondence to fashion a distinctive personality for a talented, but remote and publicity-shy woman. …”
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