Tag: colonialism
Nobel Prize for Literature Abdulrazak Gurnah: Is It Good? – Culture
To award Abdulrazak Gurnah the Nobel Prize for Literature is an idea. When you’ve read it, you have to say: It’s a shame that the committee doesn’t justify this idea…
Is he good? About the Nobel Laureate in Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah – Culture
To award Abdulrazak Gurnah the Nobel Prize for Literature is an idea. When you’ve read it, you have to say: It’s a shame that the committee doesn’t justify this idea…
Abdulrazak Gurnah, a novelist with works marked by immigration and colonialism
Absent from the bookmakers’ prediction lists, Abdulrazak Gurnah received the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature this Thursday, to the surprise of critics, from his own publisher Henrik Celander in Sweden,…
Dinosaurs: Rare Fossil Controversy Enters Next Round – Knowledge
In December 2020, a 110-million-year-old dinosaur from Brazil stunned scientists with its fur-like hairs and spear-like feathers that sprout from its shoulders. But Ubirajara jubatus, as the scientists called the…
Science and Colonialism: "It’s like a second extinction"
For months, Brazilian paleontologists have been demanding the return of a rare dinosaur fossil from a Karlsruhe museum – now the dispute is entering a new round. Why the Ubirajara…
Nadifa Mohamed’s novel “The Spirit of Tiger Bay” – Culture
The story can be summed up in one sentence: on September 3, 1952, Mahmood Mattan, an unemployed young seaman from Somalia, was executed in Cardiff for a murder he did…
Partial opening of the Humboldt Forum – Culture
A new World Culture Museum is to be built in Berlin, and judging by the concepts that those responsible presented at a press conference on Monday, it could become a…
German history: life lies of a colonial power
Germany is now returning stolen works of art. But when it comes to compensation for murder, people shirk. . Source link
Nonfiction book “Self Defense” by Elsa Dorlin – Culture
Legal texts are not considered accessible reading. But when the reality gets very complicated, a sober paragraph can bring clarity. On the subject of violence and defense, the German Criminal…
Pankaj Mishra’s “Kind Fanatics” essay collection. Review – culture
The Indo-British essayist Pankaj Mishra has been dissecting the colonial arrogance of the West for twenty years. Has anything changed since then? About freedom, deception and the difficult endeavor of…