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Poetry Review: Rediscovering Aimé Césaire — The Politics and Poetics of Negritude.

Valuable new translations of Aimé Césaire suggest that we have overemphasized the political dimension of his poetry and overlooked other, purely literary, qualities.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: A. James Arnold, Aimé Césaire, Anna Bostock, Annette Smith, Archipelago-Books, Clayton Eshleman, Dominic Thomas, French poetry, John Berger, Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Other Poems, Martinique, Negritude, Northwestern University Press, Return to My Native Land, Solar Throat Slashed, Solar Throat Slashed : The Unexpurgated 1948 Edition, The Original 1939 “Notebook of a Return to the Native Land”, translation, Wesleyan University Press

Book Review: The Remarkable Life of Storm Jameson — Attention Tenderly Paid

After reading this scholarly and accessible biography, I am convinced that Storm Jameson’s life is a must for anyone fascinated by the history of women writers in the 20th century.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: 20th century, Elisabeth Maslen, English, Northwestern University Press, Storm Jameson, women writers

Stage Interview: Turf Wars — “A Raisin in the Sun” and “Clybourne Park”

“Clybourne Park” was expressly written to be in conversation with Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun.” The former gives us a new perspective — actually new perspectives — on the latter.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: A Raisin in the Sun, Clybourne Park, Harvey Young Jr., Northwestern University Press, Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun

World Books Update

By Bill Marx You want a racy, nineteenth-century epic about sex, sin, drugs, and prostitution set in China? Here it is. Two more pieces on international fiction for World Books, the feature I edit for PRI’s The World.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Columbia University Press, Gaito Gazdanov, international fiction, New-Directions, Night Roads, Northwestern University Press, summer books, World Books

World Books Update

By Bill Marx I am juggling editing and writing duties between two blogs, theartsfuse and World Books for the website of BBC/PRI’s radio program The World, which is produced at WGBH in Boston. The section aims to be a critical conversation made up of reviews, commentaries, interviews, podcasts, and news stories about international literature. Respected […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Cao Naiqian, China, Columbia University Press, Far North, Ferenc Barnás, Gaito Gazdanov, Harvey Blume, Hungry, John Balcom, Mao, Marcel Theroux, Night Trips, Northwestern University Press, Qiu Xiaolon, Short Fuse, The Mao Case, The Ninth, Tommy-Wallach

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