A Quiet Journey through Literary Depths
African Women Writers and the Fine Art of Reclaiming Narrative Without Needing a White Translator’s Approval From ABS, Who Believes the only thing more powerful than a mother tongue is a mother with a pen. He Wrote, She Wrote, The West Misquoted African Women Writers and the Fine Art of Reclaiming Narrative Without Needing a […]
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Myth, Magic, and Modern Mess in African Storytelling from Oral Epics to Bureaucratic Nightmares From ABS, Who Believes folktales are more truthful than most press briefings. Before the printing press or publishing deals, before the empire’s map crayons coloured entire continents beige, Africa had its own Wi-Fi network: the griot. A walking library. A melodic
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Colonialism, Culture Clashes, and Why Chinua Achebe Had Every Right to Be Annoyed From ABS, Who Believes stories survive empires, but sarcasm survives history. It begins, as most tragic tales do, with someone arriving uninvited. Long before PowerPoint presentations and TED Talks about “cultural sensitivity,” colonial powers marched into Africa with swords, Bibles, and the
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Gender, identity, mental health, and everything the old CanLit canon politely ignored. By ABS, who believes the future of literature belongs to those who never asked permission to speak. Let’s be honest. Canadian literature used to be like a well-behaved dinner guest—clean shoes, decent opinions, and a tendency to whisper. But lately, it’s been showing
CanLit-5. Post-Maple Literature: Queer, Bold, and Beautifully Unbothered Read More »
From Mistry to Martel, multiculturalism met narrative—and everything got delightfully complicated. By ABS, who believes that literary diversity is Canada’s quiet superpower (along with passive-aggressive weather). If the previous phase of CanLit was all about literary superstars and dystopian disasters, this one is about something quieter but more radical: the changing face of the narrator.
CanLit-4. Immigrant Ink and Urban Angst: Canada Writes Itself a New Face Read More »
Welcome to the age of Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, and a literary passport that finally got stamped. By ABS, who believes that Canadian fiction became globally relevant the moment it stopped apologizing in every sentence. It finally happened. Canada got loud. Well, not American loud. But definitely loud enough for the world to
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Indigenous resistance, French-English tug-of-war, and the awkward teenage years of Canadian storytelling. By ABS, who believes that literature is the only polite place where Canada actually argues with itself. If Canadian literature were a person, this is the phase where it’d slam the bedroom door, declare it doesn’t want to be British or American, and
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Before Atwood, before Munro, there were logs, loneliness, and literary frostbite. By ABS, who believes the maple leaf wasn’t the first thing Canadians pressed into books—melancholy got there first. Picture this: an icy wilderness, an unforgiving climate, and a group of fur-clad settlers too cold to write and too polite to complain. Welcome to the
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Tagore, Gandhi, Nehru, Sarojini Naidu, and the literary roots of India’s independence movement By ABS, The Literary Scholar, who believes that sometimes revolutions begin with a salt march, and sometimes with a sentence. Before Salman Rushdie made English magical, and long before Arundhati Roy made it Booker-worthy, a curious tribe of patriots, poets, philosophers, and
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From Karnad to Amish, from Dattani to Sanghi—these writers made Indian English loud, layered, and wildly popular By ABS, The Literary Scholar, who believes that popularity isn’t a sin—and plot twists deserve literary respect too. Not all literature wants to be quoted in dusty journals. Some of it wants to be staged, sung, screen-adapted, or
IndyLit-8 Stages, Sagas & Bestseller Smugglers Read More »