【编辑推荐】: 《今日世界文学》(World Literature Today)杂志创办于1927年,由美国俄克拉何马大学主办,是英语世界中历史悠久的世界文学杂志之一。《今日世界文学》中国版系美国《今日世界文学》杂志社参与联合打造的**中国版本,由《今日世界文学》杂志社副总编、北京师范大学知名教授联合选篇。丰富的作家作品、**的世界文学资讯为你展现当今世界文学“共和国”的风云变幻。
Poems 2 Three Poems Bijan Jalali (Iran) 3 Meditation Caves of Tibet Fred Dings (U.S.) 4 Two Poems Angélica Freitas (Brazil) 6 Leaving Home ——A reply to Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “Autobiography” (1958) Pia Tafdrup (Denmark) 9 Prophet in Andalucía Nathalie Handal (Haiti) 10 Zodiac (9) Moikom Zeqo (Albania) 12 The Suicides Caitriona O’Reilly (Irish Republic)
Fictions 13 Back to Back (an excerpt) Julia Franck (Germany) 16 The Devil I Know (an excerpt) Claire Kilroy (Irish Republic)
WORLD LITERATURE AND REGIONAL LITERATURE
22 Not Their Masters’ Voice: Latin American Nonfiction Will H. Corral (Spain) 29 The Single, Shared Text?—— Translation and World Literature Valerie Henitiuk (U.K.) 36 He Do the Police in Different Voices: The Rise of the Police Procedural J. Madison Davis (U.S.) 41 Fun with Your New Head: Getting into SF Michael Morrison (U.S.) 48 Going Mad by Grains: Reflections on Law and Literature Deji Olukotun (U.S.) 53 What Is Asia to Me? Looking East from Africa Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Kenya)
SURVEY OF NATIONAL LITERATURE
60 London and the Grotesque Tessa Ditner (U.K.) 66 Sex, Death, and Motherhood in the Eurozone——Contemporary Women’s Writing in German Hester Baer (U.S.) 74 Through Me Many Long Dumb Voices——The Poet-Lawyer Martín Espada (U.S.) 82 Post-311 Literature: Two Writers from Fukushima Takeshi Kimoto (U.S.) 88 An American in Berlin Claire Messud (U.S.)
COMMENTARY ON CONTEMPORARY WRITERS
94 A Case of Time-Release Insight——The 2011 NSK Prize Lecture Virginia Euwer Wolff (Irish Republic) 101 The Courage to Be Compassionate——A Tribute to Virginia Euwer Wolff Suzanne Fisher Staples (U.S.) 104 The Shadow Side of Modern Ireland——Marina Carr’s Midlands Tragedies Jody Allen Randolph (Irish Republic) 110 Dark Side of the Manga Tezuka Osamu’s Dark Period Rob Vollmar (U.S.) 116 Of Prisons and Freedom Liberation in the Work of Assia Djebar Phyllis Taoua (U.S.)
INTERVIEW WITH WRITERS
126 A Conversation with Juan Tomás ?vila Laurel Elisa Rizo & David Shook (U.S.) 131 Writing a Letter, Changing the Law: A Conversation with Marion Bloem Michelle Johnson (U.S.) 136 “The Oneness of I-manity” : A Conversation with Geoffrey Philp Erika J. Waters (U.S.) 144 Like Two Pairs of Glasses: Eva Stachniak on Writing Between Cultures Ania Spyra (Poland/U.S.) 149 Theater in Eleven Dimensions: A Conversation with Marina Carr Nancy Finn (U.S.)
LITERARY JOURNALISM
156 Literary Journalism in Three Dimensions Norman Sims (U.S.) 164 Telling Stories in Contemporary Spain: A Survey of Women Writing Literary Journalism Novia Pagone (Spain) 170 The Order of the Blind Camel Maria Golia (U.S.) 174 Searching for Truth: Arnon Grunberg’s Literary Journalism Agnes Andeweg (The Netherlands)
VERY SHORT FICTION
180 The Remarkable Reinvention of Very Short Fiction Robert Shapard (U.S.)
Selected Fictions 185 Two Stories Alex Epstein (Israel) 186 Continuity of Hell Andrés Neuman (Argentina) 188 Skellig Vanessa Gebbie (U.K.) 190 Truth Nora Nadjarian (Cyprus) 191 We See Our Mother Go to Bed Josefine Klougart (Denmark) 192 Birth Sandra Jensen (U.K./Canada) 193 Two Stories Clemens Setz (Germany)
CHINESE LITERATURE AND THE WORLD(From CLT)
197 Taking Sides with Poetry—An Homage to Michelle Yeh Maghiel van Crevel (The Netherlands) 203 Hankering after Sovereign Images: Modern Chinese Fiction and the Voices of Howard Goldblatt Christopher Lupke (U.S.) 211 The Rise of a Scholar and a Discipline in China: A Celebration of Yue Daiyun’s Contributions to the Field of Chinese Comparative Literature Chen Yuehong (China) 216 A Creative New Start: Wai-lim Yip in China Chunlin Li (U.S.)
WORLD LITERATURE IN REVIEW
222 Fiction M. D. Allen (U.S.), et al. 235 Misc Sarah J. O’Connell (U.S.), et al. 242 Verse Andrew Martino (U.S.), et al. 252 EDITOR’S NOTE Editor
【作者简介】: 刘洪涛(1962—),教授、博士生导师,任职于北京师范大学文学院比较文学与世界文学研究所。北京师范大学国际写作中心翻译与传播委员会委员,***精品课程“外国文学作品选读”主持人。曾任美国纽曼华语文学(Newman Prize for Chinese Literature)shou届评委(2009)。 戴维斯-昂蒂亚诺(Davis-Undiano),美国人,《今日世界文学》(World Literature Today)杂志社社长。
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