Gefan Wang
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Gefan Wang
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PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, King’s College London. Studentship from BAJS. Memory and space in post-war Austrian and Japanese literature. New to Bluesky 😶‍🌫️
I will be presenting my paper titled ‘“I Walk, Therefore I am”: Walking and Topophrenia in Thomas Bernhard’s Extinction’ at the 2025 Zhejiang Association for Foreign Literature & Comparative Literature Annual Conference. It’s going to be my first conference in China, I’m very excited indeed!
October 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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‘Linton Kwesi Johnson​ has maintained that ‘writing poetry or making music ... is not a substitute for hardcore political activism.’ But his poetry was intertwined with that activism.’

Mendez on the dub poet: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Mendez · Burning Age of Rage: On Linton Kwesi Johnson
Linton Kwesi Johnson​ has maintained that ‘writing poetry or making music ... is not a substitute for hardcore...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of Chinese residents of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The story of the atrocity is still being unearthed 140 years later.
When an American Town Massacred Its Chinese Immigrants
In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of their Asian neighbors in Rock Springs, Wyoming. A hundred and forty years later, the story of the atrocity is still being unearthed.
nyer.cm
July 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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📢 Congratulations to Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi for winning the #InternationalBooker2025 with Heart Lamp 👏

Discover what students from @kingsdllc.bsky.social thought of the winning book 👇
kcl.ac.uk/students-rev...
May 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Join us for a one-day interdisciplinary postgraduate conference hosted by the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures!

Friday 2 May 2025
📍 Bush House Lecture Theatre 1 (S)1.01, Strand Campus, King’s College London

More info ⬇️

www.tickettailor.com/events/depar...
April 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM