Focus: Multilingual Literature — July / August 2014

Multilingual Literature

Volume 35, Number 5
July-August 2014

Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.

Ania Spyra’s Introduction to Focus – Multilingualism Now and Then

Denise K. Filios reviews Jonathan Hsy’s Trading Tongues: Merchants, Multilingualism, and Medieval Literature

Gayle Rogers reviews Joshua L. Miller’sAccented America: The Cultural Politics of Multilingual Modernism

Steven G. Kellman’s “¿Qué es Literatura Translingual?”

Yasemin Yildiz reviews Chantal Wright’s translation of Yoko Towada’s Yoko Towada’s Portrait of a Tongue

David Gramling reviews Junot Díaz’sThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Juliana Spahr’s “Multilingual Poetries, NAFTA, and 9/11”

Avishek Ganguly’s “Theatres of Multilingualism”

Christi A. Merrill reviews Laura Brueck’s translation of Ajay Navaria’sUnclaimed Terrain

Feature: Trauma

Tyler Mills reviews Shaindel Beer’sThe Children’s War and Other Poems

Micah Ling reviews Loren Kleinman’sThe Dark Cave Between My Ribs

Andrew Weinstein reviews Richard Burgin’sHide Island: A Novella and 9 Stories

Jay Shearer reviews Jayson IwenGnarly Wounds

Book Reviews

Nathan Floom reviews Roxane Gay’sAn Untamed State

Yuri Tarnawsky reviews Lance Olsen’sTheories of Forgetting

Hilary Sideris reviews Patricia Brody’sDangerous to Know

Patrick James Dunagan reviews Robert Slifkin’s Out of Time

Stephanie Rauschenbusch reviews Michele Battiste’sUprising

Evan Steuber reviews Tsipi Keller’sElsa

Judith Podell reviews Peggy Shinner’sYou Feel So Mortal: Essays on the Body

Nikki Paley Cox reviews James Baldwin’sJimmy’s Blues and Other Poems

Kai Krienke reviews Benjamin Hollander’sIn The House Un-American

Jeffrey R. Di Leo reviews George Benson’s with Alan GoldsherBenson: The Autobiography

Jan Garden Castro reviews Mathew Henderson’sThe Lease

Sheldon Compton reviews Shane Jones’sCrystal Eaters

Myrdene Anderson reviews David Vann’sDirt: A Novel

Fred Muratori reviews Phillip Fried’sInterrogating Waters and Other Poems

Departments

Page 2 – Jeffrey R. Di Leo’s “The End of Book Country”

Scenes – Publishing Genius Press’s interview with Adam Robinson