Sara Marzagora
Biographic Data
| ID | 97847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Marzagora |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Marzagora |
| SIGNATURE | MARZAGORA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3989-3080 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
National Multilingualism in the Horn of Africa and South Asia
Comparative Literature and the Genocide in Palestine
This article interrogates the role of comparative literature in the ongoing genocide in Palestine. What can comparative literature do against the genocide? I answer this question with reference to the work of Refaat Alareer. Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Islamic University of Gaza, Alareer was killed by a targeted Israeli airstrike on 6 December 2023. I argue that Alareer’s scholarship should be understood as part of the …
Making Audiences: Gäbrä-Əgziabher Gila-Maryam as a Forerunner of Ethiopian Print Culture, 1895–1914
This chapter analyses the epistemological overhaul of genres and ideas of textuality that took place in Ethiopia between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, and that prepared the grounds for the rise of Amharic print culture. Gäbrä-Əgziabher Gila-Maryam is generally credited with producing the first Amharic newspaper. His poetic newssheets readapted the genre of the awaj , or imperial proclamation. Most of these …
Global Histories of the Japanese Parliament: Articles in the International History Review Presented at the Symposium on the Occasion of the 130th Anniversary of the Opening of the Imperial Diet at the…
Teaching International Solidarity through Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings
This article discusses the relevance of the journal Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings, a trilingual (Arabic, English, French) quarterly published by the Afro-Asian Writers Association from 1968 to 1991, for the development of critical and anticolonial pedagogies
Tamara Mariam Dawit, director. Finding Sally (documentary). 2020. 78 min. Amharic, Tigrinya, and English with English subtitles. Ethiopia. Catbird Productions. No price reported
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An Unequal Ethiopia in an Unequal World: Global and Domestic Hierarchies in Afäwärḳ Gäbrä-Iyyäsus’s and Käbbädä Mikael’s Political Thought (1908 and 1949)
The Ethiopian empire retained its political independence through the European Scramble for Africa. The imperial elites oversaw the transformation of the empire into a territorially-bounded state, part of an international system of states regulated by international law and by international institutions such as the League of Nations, and later the UN. Ethiopian intellectuals were keenly aware that Ethiopia had joined this international system from …
Political Thought and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Ethiopian-Japanese Relations (1927–1936)
Ethiopia and Japan tightened their diplomatic and economic relationships between 1927 and 1931. Haile Selassie and the “progressive” intellectuals around him were striving to strengthen Ethiopia’s claim to sovereignty. Japan as an example of non-white success added ammunition to their claim that Ethiopia had a right to sit at the table of the "great nations". The Japanese government sought to expand its trade, and probably understood its economic…
Modernisation from the Shadows: Conspiracy, Monasticism and Techno-Utopia in the Amharic novel Dertogada
The Amharic novel Dertogada (2009) was a smash hit in Ethiopia, launching Yismake Worku’s career as one of the most popular Amharic writers of the last decade. This paper explores Dertogada’s huge cultural influence by tracing its unique synthesis between the Amharic literary tradition, American spy thrillers and conspiracy novels, and postcolonial critique. Dertogada is a projection into the future of a series of questions about modernisation an…
Refashioning the Ethiopian Monarchy in the Twentieth Century: An Intellectual History
This article traces the shift in the Ethiopian monarchical ideology from lineage as symbolic Christian filiation to dynasty as a political genealogy of sovereign power. From the end of the nineteenth century, and more prominently under Haylä Səllase, Ethiopian state sources started qualifying the Ethiopian ruling dynasty as ‘unbroken’ in history. A record of ‘uninterrupted’ power allowed the Ethiopian government to politically appropriate past gl…
History in Twentieth-Century Ethiopia: The ‘Great Tradition’ and the Counter-Histories of National Failure
Drawing from both fictional and non-fictional sources, this article traces the way history was conceptualised in twentieth-century Ethiopia by secular educated elites, charting the changing power relations between Ethiopia's hegemonic historiographical paradigm and the alternative historical visions that challenged this ‘Great Tradition’ over the course of the century. While the Great Tradition extols Ethiopia's past and future glories, the count…
The humanism of reconstruction: African intellectuals, decolonial critical theory and the opposition to the 'posts' (postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism)
This article traces the mixed fortunes of what intellectuals like Paul Tiyambe Zeleza refer to as the 'posts' (poststructuralism, postmodernism and postcolonialism) in African studies. It documents the historical processes and intellectual developments that, starting from the 1980s, laid the ground for an integration of deconstructive elements in the thought of African scholars. Despite the support garnered from scholars like Achille Mbembe, the …
African-language literatures and the ‘transnational turn’ in Euro-American humanities
This article relates the recent 'transnational turn' in Euro-American humanities to African literary criticism – and African-language literatures in particular. While some African intellectuals embraced the new globalist way of analysing literature, there is a strong resistance in African studies against it, as African intellectuals often work with a set of intellectual priorities and philosophical premises that are very different from those who …
Re-writing history in the literature of the Ethiopian diaspora in Italy
The paper offers an overview of the Italian-language literary production by diasporic writers of Ethiopian origin, focusing in particular on Gabriella Ghermandi’s 2007 novel Regina di fiori e di perle (‘Queen of flowers and pearls’). This output will be contextualized within the field of Italian postcolonial and ‘migrant’ literature, which emerged in the 1990s but has yet to receive a proper recognition in Italian academic circles. The exploratio…
Literatures in African languages
For decades, African literary studies have been grounded in an epistemological distinction between Europhone literatures and Afrophone literatures. Each of these two poles was associated with a spe
History in Twentieth-Century Ethiopia: The ‘Great Tradition’ and the Counter-Histories of National Failure
Drawing from both fictional and non-fictional sources, this article traces the way history was conceptualised in twentieth-century Ethiopia by secular educated elites, charting the changing power relations between Ethiopia's hegemonic historiographical paradigm and the alternative historical visions that challenged this ‘Great Tradition’ over the course of the century. While the Great Tradition extols Ethiopia's past and future glories, the count…
The humanism of reconstruction: African intellectuals, decolonial critical theory and the opposition to the 'posts' (postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism)
This article traces the mixed fortunes of what intellectuals like Paul Tiyambe Zeleza refer to as the 'posts' (poststructuralism, postmodernism and postcolonialism) in African studies. It documents the historical processes and intellectual developments that, starting from the 1980s, laid the ground for an integration of deconstructive elements in the thought of African scholars. Despite the support garnered from scholars like Achille Mbembe, the …
African-language literatures and the ‘transnational turn’ in Euro-American humanities
This article relates the recent 'transnational turn' in Euro-American humanities to African literary criticism – and African-language literatures in particular. While some African intellectuals embraced the new globalist way of analysing literature, there is a strong resistance in African studies against it, as African intellectuals often work with a set of intellectual priorities and philosophical premises that are very different from those who …
Literatures in African languages
For decades, African literary studies have been grounded in an epistemological distinction between Europhone literatures and Afrophone literatures. Each of these two poles was associated with a spe
Political Thought and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Ethiopian-Japanese Relations (1927–1936)
Ethiopia and Japan tightened their diplomatic and economic relationships between 1927 and 1931. Haile Selassie and the “progressive” intellectuals around him were striving to strengthen Ethiopia’s claim to sovereignty. Japan as an example of non-white success added ammunition to their claim that Ethiopia had a right to sit at the table of the "great nations". The Japanese government sought to expand its trade, and probably understood its economic…
African-language literatures and the ‘transnational turn’ in Euro-American humanities
This article relates the recent 'transnational turn' in Euro-American humanities to African literary criticism – and African-language literatures in particular. While some African intellectuals embraced the new globalist way of analysing literature, there is a strong resistance in African studies against it, as African intellectuals often work with a set of intellectual priorities and philosophical premises that are very different from those who …
Re-writing history in the literature of the Ethiopian diaspora in Italy
The paper offers an overview of the Italian-language literary production by diasporic writers of Ethiopian origin, focusing in particular on Gabriella Ghermandi’s 2007 novel Regina di fiori e di perle (‘Queen of flowers and pearls’). This output will be contextualized within the field of Italian postcolonial and ‘migrant’ literature, which emerged in the 1990s but has yet to receive a proper recognition in Italian academic circles. The exploratio…
Literatures in African languages
For decades, African literary studies have been grounded in an epistemological distinction between Europhone literatures and Afrophone literatures. Each of these two poles was associated with a spe
The humanism of reconstruction: African intellectuals, decolonial critical theory and the opposition to the 'posts' (postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism)
This article traces the mixed fortunes of what intellectuals like Paul Tiyambe Zeleza refer to as the 'posts' (poststructuralism, postmodernism and postcolonialism) in African studies. It documents the historical processes and intellectual developments that, starting from the 1980s, laid the ground for an integration of deconstructive elements in the thought of African scholars. Despite the support garnered from scholars like Achille Mbembe, the …
History in Twentieth-Century Ethiopia: The ‘Great Tradition’ and the Counter-Histories of National Failure
Drawing from both fictional and non-fictional sources, this article traces the way history was conceptualised in twentieth-century Ethiopia by secular educated elites, charting the changing power relations between Ethiopia's hegemonic historiographical paradigm and the alternative historical visions that challenged this ‘Great Tradition’ over the course of the century. While the Great Tradition extols Ethiopia's past and future glories, the count…
Refashioning the Ethiopian Monarchy in the Twentieth Century: An Intellectual History
This article traces the shift in the Ethiopian monarchical ideology from lineage as symbolic Christian filiation to dynasty as a political genealogy of sovereign power. From the end of the nineteenth century, and more prominently under Haylä Səllase, Ethiopian state sources started qualifying the Ethiopian ruling dynasty as ‘unbroken’ in history. A record of ‘uninterrupted’ power allowed the Ethiopian government to politically appropriate past gl…
Modernisation from the Shadows: Conspiracy, Monasticism and Techno-Utopia in the Amharic novel Dertogada
The Amharic novel Dertogada (2009) was a smash hit in Ethiopia, launching Yismake Worku’s career as one of the most popular Amharic writers of the last decade. This paper explores Dertogada’s huge cultural influence by tracing its unique synthesis between the Amharic literary tradition, American spy thrillers and conspiracy novels, and postcolonial critique. Dertogada is a projection into the future of a series of questions about modernisation an…
An Unequal Ethiopia in an Unequal World: Global and Domestic Hierarchies in Afäwärḳ Gäbrä-Iyyäsus’s and Käbbädä Mikael’s Political Thought (1908 and 1949)
The Ethiopian empire retained its political independence through the European Scramble for Africa. The imperial elites oversaw the transformation of the empire into a territorially-bounded state, part of an international system of states regulated by international law and by international institutions such as the League of Nations, and later the UN. Ethiopian intellectuals were keenly aware that Ethiopia had joined this international system from …
Political Thought and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Ethiopian-Japanese Relations (1927–1936)
Ethiopia and Japan tightened their diplomatic and economic relationships between 1927 and 1931. Haile Selassie and the “progressive” intellectuals around him were striving to strengthen Ethiopia’s claim to sovereignty. Japan as an example of non-white success added ammunition to their claim that Ethiopia had a right to sit at the table of the "great nations". The Japanese government sought to expand its trade, and probably understood its economic…
Tamara Mariam Dawit, director. Finding Sally (documentary). 2020. 78 min. Amharic, Tigrinya, and English with English subtitles. Ethiopia. Catbird Productions. No price reported
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Teaching International Solidarity through Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings
This article discusses the relevance of the journal Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings, a trilingual (Arabic, English, French) quarterly published by the Afro-Asian Writers Association from 1968 to 1991, for the development of critical and anticolonial pedagogies
Making Audiences: Gäbrä-Əgziabher Gila-Maryam as a Forerunner of Ethiopian Print Culture, 1895–1914
This chapter analyses the epistemological overhaul of genres and ideas of textuality that took place in Ethiopia between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, and that prepared the grounds for the rise of Amharic print culture. Gäbrä-Əgziabher Gila-Maryam is generally credited with producing the first Amharic newspaper. His poetic newssheets readapted the genre of the awaj , or imperial proclamation. Most of these …
Global Histories of the Japanese Parliament: Articles in the International History Review Presented at the Symposium on the Occasion of the 130th Anniversary of the Opening of the Imperial Diet at the…
National Multilingualism in the Horn of Africa and South Asia
Comparative Literature and the Genocide in Palestine
This article interrogates the role of comparative literature in the ongoing genocide in Palestine. What can comparative literature do against the genocide? I answer this question with reference to the work of Refaat Alareer. Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Islamic University of Gaza, Alareer was killed by a targeted Israeli airstrike on 6 December 2023. I argue that Alareer’s scholarship should be understood as part of the …
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · African history and culture analysis (7 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · History (6 works) · African history and culture studies (5 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (5 works)