phati’tude is a series of programs developed by The Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS). So what’s phati’tude? It began as a literary magazine in 1997, and in time, it made sense to tie all of these initiatives under one umbrella, and that’s how phati’tude programming was borne.
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Here’s to the small print: The past and future of compact literature
News, blog, feature, general // 08.03.2010
From cigarette packet-sized classics to Don Quixote on the iPhone, Jonathan Gibbs charts the past and future of compact literature.
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Hungarian-born writer receives German literature prize
News, blog, feature, general // 08.03.2010
Terezia Mora overcame language barriers to capture the human condition in her award-winning German novels. The Hungarian-born is recognized with this year’s Chamisso Prize for non-native German authors.
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Ramnath Subramanian: Students are deprived of great works of literature
Home, blog, feature, literary news // 08.03.2010
Many students attending schools in America will enroll in their freshman year of high school without ever having heard of Chekhov, Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy. It is likely they will not be able to meaningfully enter into any conversation . . .
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Why we just can’t get enough of ‘Alice’
News, blog, feature, general // 08.03.2010
Almost 150 years after its creation, Lewis Carroll’s delightfully weird Wonderland world continues to fascinate — and to spawn merchandise. Jewelry, trinkets, clothing, cosmetics: We want it all.
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The Sixty-Year Journey: Bhasha Literature
News, blog, feature, general // 08.03.2010
Increased literacy levels and technology have ensured the democratisation of contemporary Indian literature. . . The essential features of the literature during the last sixty years cannot be similarly captured in terms of a few major trends or influences.
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100 Years After His Death, Mark Twain Continues an International Legacy
Home, News, blog, feature, general // 08.03.2010
Mark Twain, left a worldwide legacy that has continued since his death 100 years ago. As cities across the country are celebrating Twain this year, Twain experts explain how he shaped American literature and culture . . .
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Dear John Makinson and Penguin, please don’t “reinvent” books
News, blog, feature, general // 08.03.2010
We’ve got enough mindless entertainment in the world today. When I read War and Peace, I don’t want to hear an actor reciting Bezukhov’s lines. I want to read them for myself and add my own thoughts . . .
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Liquidating the borders between fact and fiction
Home, blog, feature, general // 08.03.2010
Despite the best efforts of his widow to quash it, a new biography of Ryszard Kapuscinski has been published in Poland which describes the writer as a liar and a communist spy. . . In other words, that he made things up about himself and the events he claimed to have witnessed.
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Is this the end of Holocaust literature?
Home, News, blog, feature, general // 08.03.2010
Over 65 years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, primary sources are vanishing; there are now only around 5,000 Holocaust survivors alive in the UK. . . . there’s a sense that writers of the second and third generation are beginning to tire of the Shoah.
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Scholars make 9,000 corrections to James Joyce classic
Home, blog, feature, general // 08.03.2010
After 30 years of detective work and eye-strain, Dubliners Danis Rose and John O’Hanlon have produced a corrected version of “Finnegans Wake.” They attribute the mistakes to James Joyce’s failing eyesight. . .
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Palestinian Sees Lesson Translating an Israeli’s Work
News, blog, feature, general // 08.03.2010
Six years ago, when violence was the order of the day here, Elias Khoury’s 20-year-old son, George, was killed in a Palestinian terrorist attack. The Khourys are Palestinian and so are the killers, who said “sorry . . . we assumed the jogger was a Jew.”
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African Literature Conference Opening
News, blog, feature, general // 08.03.2010
Irène d’Almeida, the University of Arizona’s French and Italian department head, will convene the 36th Annual African Literature Association Conference, which will include lectures, presentations and film screenings.
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On Female Characters
News, blog, feature, general // 08.03.2010
It has probably not escaped the notice of most attentive readers that female characters are under a lot more scrutiny than male ones will ever be. I see this as a reflection of the world we live in, which is still a world in which women are required to justify their actions much more frequently than men.
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From the phati'tude Blog
Welcome to phati’tude!
phati’tude is a series of programs developed by The Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS). So what’s phati’tude? It began as a literary magazine in 1997, and in time, it made sense to tie all of these initiatives under one umbrella, and that’s how phati’tude programming was borne.
Continue →Here’s to the small print: The past and future of compact literature
From cigarette packet-sized classics to Don Quixote on the iPhone, Jonathan Gibbs charts the past and future of compact literature.
Continue →Hungarian-born writer receives German literature prize
Terezia Mora overcame language barriers to capture the human condition in her award-winning German novels. The Hungarian-born is recognized with this year’s Chamisso Prize for non-native German authors.
Continue →Ramnath Subramanian: Students are deprived of great works of literature
Many students attending schools in America will enroll in their freshman year of high school without ever having heard of Chekhov, Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy. It is likely they will not be able to meaningfully enter into any conversation . . .
Continue →Why we just can’t get enough of ‘Alice’
Almost 150 years after its creation, Lewis Carroll’s delightfully weird Wonderland world continues to fascinate — and to spawn merchandise. Jewelry, trinkets, clothing, cosmetics: We want it all.
Continue →The Sixty-Year Journey: Bhasha Literature
Increased literacy levels and technology have ensured the democratisation of contemporary Indian literature. . . The essential features of the literature during the last sixty years cannot be similarly captured in terms of a few major trends or influences.
Continue →More News
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100 Years After His Death, Mark Twain Continues an International Legacy
Mark Twain, left a worldwide legacy that has continued since his death 100 years ago. As cities across the country are celebrating Twain this year, Twain experts explain how he shaped American literature and culture . . .
-
Dear John Makinson and Penguin, please don’t “reinvent” books
We’ve got enough mindless entertainment in the world today. When I read War and Peace, I don’t want to hear an actor reciting Bezukhov’s lines. I want to read them for myself and add my own thoughts . . .
-
Liquidating the borders between fact and fiction
Despite the best efforts of his widow to quash it, a new biography of Ryszard Kapuscinski has been published in Poland which describes the writer as a liar and a communist spy. . . In other words, that he made things up about himself and the events he claimed to have witnessed.
-
Is this the end of Holocaust literature?
Over 65 years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, primary sources are vanishing; there are now only around 5,000 Holocaust survivors alive in the UK. . . . there’s a sense that writers of the second and third generation are beginning to tire of the Shoah.
-
Scholars make 9,000 corrections to James Joyce classic
After 30 years of detective work and eye-strain, Dubliners Danis Rose and John O’Hanlon have produced a corrected version of “Finnegans Wake.” They attribute the mistakes to James Joyce’s failing eyesight. . .
-
Palestinian Sees Lesson Translating an Israeli’s Work
Six years ago, when violence was the order of the day here, Elias Khoury’s 20-year-old son, George, was killed in a Palestinian terrorist attack. The Khourys are Palestinian and so are the killers, who said “sorry . . . we assumed the jogger was a Jew.”
-
African Literature Conference Opening
Irène d’Almeida, the University of Arizona’s French and Italian department head, will convene the 36th Annual African Literature Association Conference, which will include lectures, presentations and film screenings.
-
On Female Characters
It has probably not escaped the notice of most attentive readers that female characters are under a lot more scrutiny than male ones will ever be. I see this as a reflection of the world we live in, which is still a world in which women are required to justify their actions much more frequently than men.
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Nonfiction gains classroom footing
The canon of Old Dead White Guys does not rule over high school English class like it once did. Authors like William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Henry David Thoreau and Mark Twain will always have their place, of course, but schools on the Lower Shore are adapting curriculum to reflect a new wave of literature.
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The Symbiosis of Music and Literature
I never read books until I was 14 years old. Typical boy, I was out in all weathers playing cricket or football instead. What turned me on to literature, was when a respected older Cousin suggested I listen to The Cure’s “Killing An Arab” and then read Camus’ “L’Etranger”, both of which I dutifully did. . . . Oh yeah, I not only read books now, I write ‘em as well. And as part of that, music is still key.
