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Edited Book or Journal Volume

Marzagora, Sara, Orsini, Francesca and Laachir, Karima, eds. (2019) Multilingual Locals and Textual Circulation Before Colonialism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. (Special issue: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, vol. 39, no. 1)

Marzagora, Sara, ed. (2015) Journal of African Cultural Studies vol. 27, no.1 - special issue on Literatures in African Languages. London: Taylor and Francis.

Book Chapters

Marzagora, Sara and Kebede, Ayele (2019) 'Literary networks in the Horn of Africa: Oromo and Amharic intellectual histories.' In: Adejunmobi, Moradewun and Coetzee, Carli, (eds.), Routledge Handbook of African Literature. London, UK: Taylor and Francis, pp. 429-442.

Marzagora, Sara (2018) 'Nationalism: The Italian occupation in Amharic literature and political thought.' In: Brioni, Simone and Gulema, Shimelis, (eds.), The Horn of Africa and Italy: Colonial, Postcolonial and Transnational Cultural Encounters. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 141-166.

Marzagora, Sara (2018) 'On either end of modernity: Ethiopian writers on history and social change.' In: Comberiati, Daniele and Luffin, Xavier, (eds.), Italy and the Literatures from the Horn of Africa: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Djibouti: Beyond the Language and the Territory. Rome: Aracne, pp. 19-48.

Marzagora, Sara (2015) '‘We proceed following Japan’: the role of the Japanese model in early 20th century Ethiopian political philosophy.' In: Sonderegger, Arno, (ed.), African Thoughts on Colonial and Neo-colonial Worlds: Facets of an Intellectual History of Africa. Berlin: Neofelis Verlag, pp. 17-32.

Journal Article

Marzagora, Sara (2022) 'Refashioning the Ethiopian monarchy in the twentieth century: An intellectual history.' Global Intellectual History, 7 (3). pp. 533-557.

Orsini, Francesca, Marzagora, Sara and Laachir, Karima (2019) 'Multilingual locals and textual circulation before colonialism.' Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 39 (1). pp. 63-67.

Marzagora, Sara (2019) 'Ethiopian Intellectual History and the Global: Käbbädä Mikael’s Geographies of Belonging.' Journal of World Literature, 4 (1). pp. 107-128.

Laachir, Karima, Marzagora, Sara and Orsini, Francesca (2018) 'Multilingual locals and significant geographies: For a ground-up and located approach to world literature.' Modern Languages Open, 1 (19). pp. 1-8.

Laachir, Karima, Marzagora, Sara and Orsini, Francesca (2018) 'Significant Geographies: in lieu of world literature.' Journal of World Literature, 3 (3). pp. 290-310.

Marzagora, Sara (2017) 'History in twentieth-century Ethiopia: The ‘Great Tradition’ and the counter-histories of national failure.' The Journal of African History, 58 (3). pp. 425-444.

Marzagora, Sara (2016) 'The humanism of reconstruction: African intellectuals, decolonial critical theory and the opposition to the ‘posts’ (postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism).' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 28 (2). pp. 161-178.

Marzagora, Sara (2015) 'Re-writing history in the literature of the Ethiopian diaspora in Italy.' African Identities, 13 (3). pp. 211-225.

Marzagora, Sara (2015) 'Editorial: Literatures in African Languages.' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 27 (1). pp. 1-6.

Marzagora, Sara (2015) 'African-language literatures and the ‘transnational turn’ in Euro-American humanities.' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 27 (1). pp. 40-55.

Book Reviews

Marzagora, Sara (2018) 'Review of Matteo Salvadore, The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402-1555 (Transculturalisms 1400–1700.) xi, 235 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2017.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 81 (1). pp. 188-190.

Marzagora, Sara (2017) 'Review of James de Lorenzi, Guardians of the Traditions: Historians and historical writing in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2015, 219 pp.' Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 87 (2). pp. 421-423.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Marzagora, Sara and Stevano, Sara (2020) 'We are the University!' Reflections on the 2020 strike of UK university workers. Global Labour Column [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Theses

Marzagora, Sara (2016) Alterity, coloniality and modernity in Ethiopian political thought : the first three generations of 20th century Amharic-language intellectuals /. PhD thesis. SOAS, University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00023681