CHICANA & CHICANO VISIONS OF THE AMERICAS
OU Press Book Series
Edited by WLT executive director RC Davis-Undiano
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Beloved Rongomala (an excerpt) by Shaheen Akhtar
Writing in Cuba in the Twenty-first Century
A Conversation with Zvonko Karanović
“Lizard Tail Blues” by Roberto Castillo Udiarte
 The Sarabande of Sara’s Band by Larysa Denysenko
Michael M. Naydan & Svitlana Bednazh, tr. Glagoslav Publications, 2013 ...Read more |
 Writers of narrative or creative nonfiction often “immerse” themselves in places or with subjects for long periods in order to write about subjects intimately and in-depth. ...Read more |
 This week, you can meet the two winners of the Best Translated Book Awards, transport yourself to the Bogota International Book Festival, and check Google for how many times your favorite word has been used in books over time. Have fun!
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 New Windows into the Iranian American Experience: An Interview with Anita Amirrezvani & Persis Karim
Left: Anita Amirrezvani Right: Persis Karim
Perhaps best known to the American public for the memoir genre, Iranian American literature has expanded considerably since the late twentieth century. Noting a trend away from... |
 In honor of Mother’s Day, we’ve compiled a list of recent literature that explores mothers of all sorts: good, bad, deceased, new, and even a little on the crazy side. One thing’s for sure: these moms are anything but ordinary. But let’s be honest... |
All new links ready for your perusal, including photo recaps of this year’s PEN World Voices Festival, two exciting events in London this month, and a flash game inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most enduring work.
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Emily Johnson, Associate Professor of Russian in the University of Oklahoma’s Department of Modern Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, is a longtime contributing editor to World Literature Today. After seeing Essaydi’s... |
 In my travels around the global literary scene, the question of a writerly identity has never seemed more precarious, conflicted, and urgent than with writers from Africa. More often than not, it is the writer—not the reader—who is... |