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Cale d’Etoiles Coolitude – Cargo Hold of Stars ENGLISH Edition

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Longlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize! Cargo Hold of Stars: Coolitude by Khal Torabully, translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson The Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize is for book-length literary translations into English from any living European language. It aims to honour the craft of translation and to recognise its cultural importance. With Cargo Hold of Stars, […]... Read More
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La méthodologie de la coolitude pour l’engagisme et l’esclavage

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La méthodologie de la coolitude pour l’engagisme et l’esclavage Cas d’école : « Slave in a Palanquin » de Nira Wickramasinghe KHAL TORABULLY  dans Le Mauricien, 30 Octobre 2020 Prémisses L’humanisme de l’engagisme, la coolitude, a tôt développé une perspective dialoguant avec l’esclavage et les humanités. Pour preuve, dès sa parution en 1992, Cale d’étoiles avait […]... Read More
1 Coolie on a Tube Train 2 Coolie at Oxford Circus 3 Sukie and the Coolie 4 Coolie on Display

Afterlives: Coolie Voyaging with Danny Flynn

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Afterlives:  Coolie Voyaging with Danny Flynn The nineteenth century Indian labour migrants who were photographed at the Mauritius Immigration Depot could not have imagined that their portraits, beautifully reworked into limited edition screenprints by artist Danny Flynn would one day travel on the London underground, visit Oxford Circus or be displayed at the Bang Studios […]... Read More

‘Coolitude’

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Review/Compte Rendu – L’Express ‘Coolitude’ par Christian Cuniah Depuis la conscientisation et la revalorisation de l’identité de l’homme noir par les Africains de la diaspora, débutant en Amérique et ensuite, dans les sociétés coloniales francophones, nous avons été témoins de plusieurs mouvements identitaires, littéraires et parfois à connotations ethniques. La Négritude, la Créolité, l’Antillanité et […]... Read More
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Why Did You Go Overseas?

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Why Did You Go Overseas? A Recruit Il était de Tanjore, Aventurier de l’or Et tambour-major   He was from Tanjore An adventurer seeking gold And a drummer. Khal Torabully, Chair Corail, Fragments Coolies   Come, you from the Grand Peninsula Into the small isle of France. Come to dance the immense twilight, To purify […]... Read More
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Migration through texts and through time…

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It is not only people who migrate to different places, so too do knowledge, culture, language, plants, animals, technical know-how and ideas. Migration of the various elements that form part of human societies is, as we all know, a natural process of life. For us humans, the prime reason for migration is economic. This is […]... Read More