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The May 2021 issue of Words Without Borders features writing from Mauritania. With work from Ahmed Isselmou, Aichetou, Moussa Ould Ebnou, Cheikh Nouh, Mariem Mint Derwich, Mamadou Kalidou Ba, Bios Diallo, and July Blalack. ....
Each year, WWB is proud to offer a platform to dozens of international writers whose work has never before appeared in English translation. As 2021 comes to an end, we’re looking back at some of the most exciting and innovative voices that WWB introduced to English-language readers this ....
Movement and Stasis: Contemporary Mauritanian Literature The release of the Hollywood film The Mauritanian earlier this year made a harrowing tale of torture and injustice at Guantánamo Bay the first Mauritanian story to truly reach the world. When the book the film was based on Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi came out in 2015, there were only three books written by Mauritanian authors available in English. [1] The number of Mauritanian works which had been translated into other languages or won regional literary awards could be counted on one hand. However, the world literature market’s lack of interest in Mauritania a country simultaneously Arab, West African, Saharan, and Sahelian does not reflect its overall literary vitality. ....
May 2021 Image: Maouya Azziz, Untitled. Courtesy of Imago Mundi. This month we present fiction and poetry from Mauritania. Simultaneously Arab, West African, Saharan, and Sahelian, and straddling the Arabophone and Francophone spheres, Mauritania boasts a rich literature reflecting its multiple cultures. Ahmed Isselmou depicts a global currency system under cyberattack. In tales that speak to Mauritania s tradition of movement, Aichetou looks back to a female community in a seventeenth-century Bedouin encampment, while Moussa Ould Ebnou sends a time traveler in search of a better future. Cheikh Nouh records the history and traditions of a village, and Mariem Mint Derwich highlights the role of women in preserving a nomadic culture. Mamadou Kalidou Ba sits in as two activist groups join forces against the repressive state. And Bios Diallo finds common ground with other African nations. We thank our guest editor, July Blalack, who contributes an illuminating introdu ....
Outsider Mode A currency linked to worker productivity becomes a global economic force and the target of a devastating cyberattack in this excerpt from Ahmed Isselmou s novel. “Time is the God of our era,” Hammoud al-Jamloudi, the governor of Futurcity’s Central Bank, declared to the delegates packing the assembly hall. “Time is the sacred arbiter we worship today. Time is the true revolution that offers justice to all classes of society. Time cannot submit to anybody’s power. The era of wage slavery is over, and employees today are free to demand a fair wage for the work they do. ....