Table of Contents, Masthead, and Editor's Note

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World LiteratureToday Dystopian Visions 13 Githa Hariharan on women’s bodies that refuse to be silenced SPECIAL SECTION Writing from Montenegro Writers with Doomsday Imaginations Your passport to great reading REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS BY Amitav Ghosh, Safiya Sinclair, Madeleine Thien & more Poetry 26 After the War by Rachel Tzvia Back 67 Old Reasons by Ghassan Zaqtan special section 28 Contemporary Montenegrin Prose featuring Milovan Radojević Brano Mandić Slađana Kavarić Guest-edited & introduced by Will Firth WorldLiteratureToday Contents In Every Issue | 03 Editor’s Note | 05 Notebook | 33 Editor’s Pick | 68 World Literature in Review | 96 Outpost MARCH – APRIL 2017 26 60 Creative Nonfiction 10 Triptych by Samina Najmi Crime & Mystery 13 Korean Crime Novels: “The Next Big Thing”? by J. Madison Davis Essays 16 When Bodies Speak by Githa Hariharan Part of the Puterbaugh Essay Series 21 “Tough as Ox Tendons”: Korean Literature and Returning Catastrophe by Eun-Gwi Chung cover feature 42 Dystopian Visions featuring Elizabeth Fifer Kiriu Minashita Michelle Pretorius Yuri Herrera Yoss Basma Abdel Aziz Susan Smith Nash Claudia Salazar Jiménez about the cover Marcus Jansen, The Rescue Rings That I Found Close By, 2015, oil enamel and mixed media on canvas. 28 cover illustration : artist rights society , ( ars ) new york vg bild kunst , bonn courtesy : unit a studio and residency oy : dominik meier moore : joe brown back : getty / afp / mahmud hams sullivan : www . flickr . com / people / jp _ math 54 worldliteraturetoday.org Web Exclusive Visit our website for exclusive content including original audio recordings, photo galleries, blog posts, and more. Music video by the Swiss group OY (page 8) Online Extras Look for these icons throughout the issue for information about exclusive content found online. web exclusive photo gallery audio video Heather Sullivan’s essay on dystopian“dark pastorals” Rachel Tzvia Back reads her poem “After the War”(page 26) Web Exclusive Web Exclusive Join the WLT community Join us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, GoodReads, and Flickr to share ideas, view photos, and read book reviews. Facebook facebook.com/ worldlittoday Twitter @worldlittoday Pinterest @worldlit GoodReads goodreads.com/ worldlittoday On the WLT Blog The interior of the human head is infinite”: A Conversation with Alan Moore by Rob Vollmar We’ve got to have a villain in our narrative, or our narrative of us being the heroes doesn’t work. At the moment we are living in this imposed state of terror.” The Matter of Forking Consequences: Translating Saint-Exupéry’s Little Prince by Yu-Yun Hsieh The nomenclature of characters in the book is neither Steinian paradox nor Freudian slip.They are lovers at work.” Read more at worldliteraturetoday.org/blog Join the conversation Join our community of readers and writers on Twitter. Use the hashtag #IReadWLT and tell us about your favorite features from this issue. Returning the Gift @RTGLitFest Congrats on the Arts Award @worldlittoday. Looking forward to both the Native Writers edition & 25th anniversary conference this year. Lucina Schell @LucinaSchell David Williams on the financial struggles of literary translators—a hard but true read @worldlittoday. Sandra Davidson @layerperception EJ Koh’s [Krys Lee] review makes the book feel entirely relevant & brilliantly provides context with which many are unfamiliar. Find us on flickr flickr.com/wltonline “ “ “ WORLDLIT.ORG 3 Have a comment, critique, or inspiration you’d like to share? Write to us on Facebook, tweet us @worldlittoday, or email the editor in chief at dsimon@ou.edu. editor’s note photo : alba simon  In László Krasznahorkai’s 1989 novel, The Melancholy of Resistance—published the same year Hungarian communism collapsed and the Berlin Wall fell—“crowds rampage, hypnotized by the chirping of a shrunken puppet-man sitting in front of a rotting whale.” In 2016, months before the US presidential election , Cuban writer Yoss imagined “the division of the United States into two dozen small nations, after Donald Trump’s second term.” The autocrat in Egyptian novelist Basma Abdel Aziz’s story “deleted words that society no longer needed, like ‘elect,’ and introduced new terms of great importance, which outlined groundbreaking ways of being patriotic that no one had considered before.” For Japanese poet Kiriu Minashita, “Even while boasting of its rapid strength and speed, the world is being...