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Origin Work

Shogun

Pathways converging on Shogun

Ordered stops 4 Across 2 mediums

The traced route

4 stops · ordered to follow

Film

1 stop

Hard to Be a God

Aleksei German · 2013

Anchored in the pathway 'The Mire of Civilizational Stagnation', linked via the thread of 'Stranded envoy absorbed by feudalism'.

Literature

3 stops

Nigeria · Literature

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe · 1958

Anchored in the pathway 'The Slow Unraveling of a World', linked via the thread of 'Translation as conquest'.

Argentina · Literature

Carlos Fuentes · 1985

Anchored in the pathway 'The Foreigner Who Comes to Die', linked via the thread of 'Pilot ground down by ritual'.

India · Literature

Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie · 1981

Anchored in the pathway 'Nations Born in the Body of a Child', linked via the thread of 'Empire negotiated through translation'.