Special Anniversary Edition:

Telling and Retelling:

The Mosaics of Traveling Narratives and Narrators

 

The Utah Foreign Language Review celebrates its Twentieth Anniversary with a special edition of scholarly essays, travel literature and biographical studies of published authors, and a limited number of creative pieces (such as poems, short stories and autobiographies). Our focus this year is on well-traveled stories and authors as artful mosaics, transformed and transfigured by their encounters with and adoption by foreign cultural contexts. We aim to examine the various means by which stories migrate, with or without their bearers, and how they take up new identities as they are told and retold.

Table of Contents

Front Matter

Editors' Note

 

Keynote

World Literature and the Creation of Literary Worlds
Martin Puchner, Harvard University

 

Essays

The Chrysanthemum and the Butterfly: What, if anything, Remains of Pierre Loti in the Madame Butterfly Narrative
Catherine Miskow, UC Davis

“Exotic Sweden”: A Nordic Quest in the Winter of 2010
Özlem Ezer, Middle East Technical University

Dwellings: Depictions of Home in Bashō’s Haiku and Haibun
Michelle Crowson, University of Utah

Red Blues: The Musical Confluence of African and Native American Identities in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon
Caleb R. Braley, University of Utah

Becoming-Woman Across Utopian Spaces: Transfiguring Encounters with Joanna Russ’s The Female Man
Malgorzata Myk, University of Lodz

Escritura desde el espacio liminal: una comparación entre Comentarios Reales del Inca Garcilaso de la Vega y Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació la conciencia de Elizabeth Burgos y Rigoberta Menchú
Luz Lara-Kuhlman, University of Utah

 

Poetry

(untitled), Poema vengativo, Un viaje en avión
Mark Anderson, University of Georgia

Pressing On, Mother of the House, A Sigh on Mykonos,Thick Rope, The Half of It 
Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, Sweet Briar College

Been Here Before, Around Esperanza
Nate Liederbach, University of Utah