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The Mystified Boat: Postmodern stories from China.
Guest-edited by Herbert Batt and featuring paintings by Mu Xin.
As international art and ideas become more influential among the young writers of China, authors have found innovative ways to express their changing perspectives and to challenge conventions of thought as well as style.
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Mercury Rising: New poetry from Taiwan.
Guest-edited by Arthur Sze and Michelle Yeh.
Also includes a photographic portfolio by Sergio Goes depicting “The Mythology of Angels,” a performance by the Iona Contemporary Dance Theatre.
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Special Issue: One Hundred Years of Korean Culture in America
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Century of the Tiger commemorates one hundred years of Korean culture in America with writing by some of the best and most eloquent Korean authors in Korea and America, past and present. Guest-edited by Heinz Insu Fenkl and Jenny Ryun Foster.
Read reviews in AsianWeek, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, and the Honolulu Advertiser.
Continue reading “Manoa, vol. 14, no. 2 (2002): Century of the Tiger”
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New fiction, poetry, and essays from Vietnamese and Vietnamese American writers.
Guest-edited by Kevin Bowen and Nguyen Ba Chung.
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Secret Places: New writing from Nepal
Guest-edited by Samrat Upadhyay and Manjushree Thapa. Includes Samrat Upadhyay’s essay “A Kingdom Orphaned” about the effects of the massacre of the royal family on the country and its people.
To read reviews of Upadhyay’s book Arresting God in Kathmandu visit the NY Times, the SF Chronicle, and rediff.com.
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Silence to Light: Japan and the Shadows of War
New writing from Japan
Guest-edited by Leza Lowitz
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Song of the Snow Lion: New Writing from Tibet
Guest-edited by Tsering Shakya and Herbert J. Batt
Song of the Snow Lion features new fiction, poetry, and essays from Tibet. Since China’s invasion of their country in 1950 and the suffering brought about by the Cultural Revolution, Tibetans have struggled to prevent their ancient culture and country from disappearing. At the same time, many Tibetans recognize that modernization in some form must come. Out of such difficult political conditions and cultural paradoxes, Tibetan authors have developed a literature that, despite Chinese censorship, explores the pressing questions facing their country today.
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Silenced Voices: New Writing from Indonesia
Frank Stewart, editor; John McGlynn, feature editor
Silenced Voices presents contemporary writing from Indonesia, and at the same time a selection of fiction, poetry and essays from throughout the Pacific region. Many of the Indonesian writers in the volume were imprisoned or persecuted for their opposition to the country’s authoritarian governments and draconian restrictions on freedom of expression. Guest editor John H. McGlynn gathered the Indonesian writing, most of it banned or censored work and appearing in English for the first time.
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The Wounded Season: New Writing from Korea
Guest-edited by Susie Jie Young Kim
This issue includes a selection of Korean stories that focus on the power of memory and history in post-war Korea. Among the authors featured are Yi Ch’ongjun, Im Cheol Woo, Choi In Hoon, Kong Sonok.
Continue reading “Manoa, vol. 11, no. 2 (1999): The Wounded Season”
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Land beneath the Wind: New poetry from Malaysia
Guest-edited by K. S. Maniam and Daizal Rafeek Samad
Focusing on Malaysia, this feature includes poetry by Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Dina Zaman, Salleh Ben Joned, Ee Tiang Hong, and Wong Phui Nam; fiction by K. S. Maniam, Mulaika Hijjas, Lloyd Fernando, and Lee Kok Liang; and an interview with Wong Phui Nam.
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Inland Shores: Nature writing from Canada
Guest-edited by Charlene Gilmore
Focusing on Western Canada, this feature includes poetry by Jan Zwicky, Tim Lilburn, Elizabeth Philips, Charles Lillard, and Monty Reid; fiction by Kevin Van Tighem and Susan Haley; and essays by Theresa Kishkan, Don Gayton, Dave Carpenter, Sid Marty, and Alan Haig-Brown.
Continue reading “Manoa, vol. 10, no. 2 (1998): Inland Shores”
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The Zigzag Way: New poetry from China
Guest-edited by Arthur Sze
This issue features the new generation of avant-garde poets from the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan. Nearly all of the writers featured here live in China under the scrutiny of the government, and the government’s overview extends to those outside the country as well. As a result, as author and translator Wang Ping explains in an interview with Arthur Sze, Chinese writers have learned to avoid censorship while striving to tell the truth: writing, as she says, in a “zigzag way.”
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