SPECIAL SECTION
The Global South
In these paired essays, two writers from the Global South argue against a view of literatures – languages and cultures – as hierarchies of power based on Western paradigms. “A globalectical imagination,” writes Ngu˜gı˜ wa Thiong’o, “assumes that any center is the center of the world.”
Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
by Daniel Simon
More Talent Than Success: The Enigma of the Underappreciated Author
Bangladesh on the World Stage
INTRO
Bangladesh on the World Stage: An Introduction
by David Shook
INTERVIEW “Opening Bangladesh to the World: A Conversation with Four Contemporary Writers” by David Shook
EXCERPT The World in My Hands by K. Anis Ahmed
POETRY Two Poems from the Chakma by Sudipta Chakma Mikado
MEMOIR “The Three Stages of Separation” by Maria Chaudhuri
The Global South
ESSAY “Breaking Out of the Prison House of Hierarchy” by Mukoma Wa Ngugi
ESSAY “A Globalectical Imagination” by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Essays
“Anne Frank Abroad: The Emergence of World Atrocity Literature” by Katherine Wilson
Poetry
Two Poems by Anne Marie Macari
“A Soul’s Cartography” by Roberto Castillo Udiarte tr. Anthony Seidman
AUDIO WEB EXCLUSIVE
“Placing Everything on the Line” (Read in Serbian and English)
by Zvonko Karanović
Fiction
“Empty But for Darwin” by Tania Hershman
“Diamond Anniversary” by Leonardo Padura
Interviews
Writing Cuba from Within: A Conversation with Leonardo Padura
“A Quiet Author’s Written Rebellion: An Interview with Ananda Devi” by Dinah Assouline Stillman
WEB EXCLUSIVE
Rebel with a Cause in Serbia: A Conversation with Zvonko Karanović
by Biljana D. Obradović
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