A selection of articles on writing from the Margreb. Bilangue (Meaning 'two languages') explores a collection of essays on cross-cultural and cross-linguistic on literary and artistic productions.
Contents
FICTION
Jean Arasanayagam, The Convent
Karen King-Aribisala, Wanted
Dilip Kumar, A Cat in the Agraharam
Translated from Tamil by Subashree Krishnaswamy
Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko, Electrification,
Simplicity of Souls
Translated by Robert Chandler
POETRY
Padmini Mongia, New Delhi, Atrani, Vaishnu Devi, Almost True
John Pass, The Sermon on the Mount, The Height of Folly
Geralyn Pinto, Forever Baboo
Tajinder Singh Hayer, Egyptian Summer
Adam Strickson, Five Boards Waiting, Stratford Biology
ARTICLES
Mick Gidley, E.O. Hoppé Photographs the Recognized Face of
Rabindranath Tagore
Gail Low, Writing Off-Centre: Establishing Commonwealth Literature
in the UK
David Richards, Translating Desire: Abdelkebir Khatibi, Calligraphy
and the Bilangue
Zahia Smail Salhi, Memory, Gender, and National Identity in
the Work of Assia Djebar
Amina Yaqin, Breaking the Mirror of Urdu Verse: Speech and Silence
in the Poetry of Kishwar Naheed
TRAVEL WRITING
Elizabeth Cook, Through the Net Curtains
Robert Chandler, The Last Caspian Tiger
Kai Easton, Travels to the Metropolis: Cape Town, London, and