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Globalizing Oromo Literature

Globalizing Oromo Literature. QUESTIONS 1. Why invest in novels and movies? 2. Why go global? 3. What are the difficulties and challenges ahead?. 1. Why invest in novels and movies? Dhaba Wayessa’s “Fallen Beats” and the Oromo Renaissance. A New Global “African Renaissance”?.

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Globalizing Oromo Literature

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  1. Globalizing Oromo Literature QUESTIONS1. Why invest in novels and movies?2. Why go global?3. What are the difficulties and challenges ahead?

  2. 1. Why invest in novels and movies?Dhaba Wayessa’s “Fallen Beats” and the Oromo Renaissance

  3. A New Global “African Renaissance”?

  4. A Strange Problem The new 21st c. “African Renaissance” appears not to be aware of the “Oromo Renaissance.” AND The “Oromo Renaissance” appears not to be aware of the new “African Renaissance.”

  5. 2. Why go global? Growth of global institutions such as the WTO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Amnesty International since 1989 Positive Experience of OYA w/ Equal Exchange Coffee. Expert Media vs. Non-Expert Media The nature of the college classroom and the courses in “world literature”

  6. The New “Ethiopian-American” Literature Nega Mezlekia, 2000 Dinaw Mengestu, 2007

  7. 3. What are the difficulties and challenges ahead?Obstacles to a Global Oromo Literature External Obstacles: •The history of “Ethiopianism” in world literature • Publishing corporations are multinational Positive Internal Obstacles: •Need to recuperate language and history. * Mohammed Hassen, “A Brief Glance at the Torturous Development of Written Oromo Literature” in The Road Less Traveled (2008) Negative Internal Obstacles: • Ideological and Monologic “Right Thinking”

  8. Now What? • Support young talent !!! … $$$ • Translate new work from Oromia. • Participate in the 21st century global market of the literary African Renaissance. • Respond satirically to the history of “Ethiopianism” in world literature. • Good literature is dialogic (i.e., multiple points of view), playful, experimental, and ironic. Bad literature is monologic, ideological, didactic, and humorless.

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