A Quiet Journey through Literary Depths
World literature gets witty: from AfriLit to AusLit, IndyLit to A-Merry-Lit, these scrolls explore diverse voices with satire, insight, and storytelling.
From Harlem jazz to Himalayan verse, Global Scrolls explore literary voices across cultures—American, Indian, African, Canadian, and Australian. Literature doesn’t need passports—only perspective.
From playgrounds to pride, from panels to podcasts—this is Indian English literature spilling out of the book and into everything else By ABS, The Literary Scholar, who believes that children’s books, queer poems, podcasts and comics are all literature—just written in different dialects of truth. You thought literature lived quietly between hardcovers? That it wore […]
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From Indigenous power to postcolonial punchlines, gender rebellions to literary reinventions—Australia writes with bite now. By ABS, who believes that modern Australian fiction has learned to throw boomerangs made of metaphor—and they rarely miss. f early Australian literature was written on the backs of convicts and mid-century fiction was dipped in despair, then modern AusLit
AusLit-3 Outback, Outrage, and the Urban Shift: The Many Moods of Modern OzLit Read More »
Patrick White, Christina Stead, and the novelists who turned isolation into high art and existential dread. By ABS, who believes that Australian literature discovered its soul somewhere between a sheep paddock, a philosophical crisis, and a very dry wit. After the bush ballads faded and the swagmen wandered off into metaphor, Australian literature experienced a
AusLit-2 Voices from the Dust: When Australia Got Serious (and Still Kept the Irony) Read More »
Colonial tales, bush ballads, and the art of storytelling when everyone’s sunburnt and slightly suspicious of authority. By ABS, who believes that the best literature often begins where exile ends—and someone accidentally rhymes “kangaroo” with “screw you.” Australian literature didn’t exactly begin with sonnets and salons. It began with chains, silence, and paperwork. Lots of
AusLit-1 From Convicts to Classics: Australia Writes Back (With Sand in Its Ink) Read More »
Instagram Poets, Prize Circuits, and Why Everyone’s Still Misreading African Literature From ABS, Who Believes literary fame is not always literary understanding. This is where the syllabus ends—and the spectacle begins. Where the bookshelves gleam with award stickers, and authors smile at literary festivals while secretly wondering if the moderator has read past chapter one.This
AfriLit-7: The Last Scroll: Markets, Media, and the Post-Postcolonial Pen Read More »
Sci-fi, Surrealism, and Why African Writers Are Lightyears Ahead of Western Tropes From ABS, Who Believes that the future is African—and the spaceship runs on ancestral memory and sass. In most Western science fiction, the future looks suspiciously like Silicon Valley in space—clean, white, metallic, and somehow still obsessed with AI having feelings.But in Afrofuturism?
AfriLit-6: Afrofuturists and Alien Bureaucrats: Africa Reimagines Tomorrow Read More »
Migration, Memory, and the Global Gaze on African Pain—Exported, Exoticized, and Finally Explained From ABS, Who Believes that exile can write better novels than comfort ever will. Some left by choice.Some were pushed.Some boarded planes, only to find that customs didn’t check for grief, and memory couldn’t be declared. This is the African literary diaspora:
AfriLit-5. Diaspora Diaries: When African Writers Boarded Planes but Never Left Home Read More »
Resistance Literature from the Streets of Soweto to the Cells of Lagos From ABS, Who Believes metaphors are weapons, especially when the censors don’t get them. When your country jails dissidents, bans books, and declares “everything is fine” while tanks roll past bookstores, you either stop writing or you learn to write like a ninja.Africa
AfriLit-4: How to Survive a Dictator and Still Write Poetry Read More »
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
AfriLit-3: He Wrote, She Wrote, The West Misquoted Read More »
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
AfriLit-2: Gods, Griots, and Government Agents Read More »