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World LiteratureToday Belief in an Age of Intolerance Guest-edited by Yahia Lababidi ALSO FEATURING Poetry by Rumi,Ted Kooser, Robert Bly, and more Aminatta Forna on Selective Empathy in Storytelling An Interview with Turkish Writer Aslı Erdoğan Your passport to great reading REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS BY Carmen Maria Machado, Haruki Murakami, Alisa Ganieva & more THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTION. WWW.OU.EDU/EOO In Mestizos Come Home! author Robert Con Davis-Undiano maps a new awareness of the United States as intrinsically connected to the broader context of the Americas. At once native and new to the American Southwest, Mexican Americans have “come home” in a profound sense: they have reasserted their right to claim that land and U.S. culture as their own. As Davis-Undiano embarks on a search for the meaning of mestizo identity, he analyzes such cultural artifacts as the casta (caste) paintings of eighteenthcentury Mexico, the work of such modern-day artists and writers as John Valadez, Alma López, Luis A. Jiménez Jr., Rudolfo Anaya, and Tomás Rivera, and the community celebrations of Day of the Dead and Cinco de Mayo. A large-scale landmark account of Mexican American culture, Mestizos Come Home! shows that mestizos are essential to U.S. national culture. As an argument for social justice and a renewal of America’s democratic ideals, this book marks a historic cultural homecoming. MESTIZOS COME HOME! MAKING AND CLAIMING MEXICAN AMERICAN IDENTITY BY ROBERT CON DAVIS-UNDIANO $29.95 HARDCOVER · 978-0-8061-5719-1 336 PAGES · 8 COLOR ILLUS. Winner of the 2017 International Latino Book Award for “BEST LATINO FOCUSED NONFICTION BOOK.” World Literature Today Sep 2017 Davis-Undiano hp ad.indd 1 2017-9-26 9:22 AM The University of Oklahoma and World Literature Today invite you to THE NEUSTADT FESTIVAL of International Literature & Culture NOV. 8–10, 2017 View the festival schedule and learn more about the prizes at neustadtfestival.org featuring NSK Prize Winner MARILYN NELSON plus 14 featured writers, artists, and scholars Alisa Ganieva Major Jackson Adnan Mahmutović Dipika Mukherjee Zia Haider Rahman Mahtem Shiferraw Achy Obejas Ladan Osman Sasha Pimentel Austin Hartel Jeanette Davidson Hayan Charara Karlos K. Hill Roxanne Lyst Fiction 18 #Moving by María José Navia 27 Checking out the Apartment by Montasser Al-Qaffash Poetry 30 Four Poems by Stella Vinitchi Radulescu 38 Three Poems by Elisa Biagini The Puterbaugh Essay 32 Selective Empathy: Stories and the Power of Narrative by Aminatta Forna WorldLiteratureToday Contents In Every Issue | 03 Editor’s Note | 05 Notebook | 21 Editor’s Pick | 64 World Literature in Review | 96 Outpost NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 2017 8 48 Q&A 10 A Conversation with Aslı Erdoğan by Erkut Tokman 23 A Conversation with Lawrence Venuti by Peter Constantine Crime & Mystery 15 Admirably Perfect and Impossible to Love by J. Madison Davis 32 cover feature 39 Belief in an Age of Intolerance guest-edited and introduced by Yahia Lababidi featuring Stephen Mitchell, Ted Kooser, Rumi, Robert Bly, and 10 other contributors about the cover Photo by Zakaria Wakrim from the Amarg’ series, southeastern Morocco, 2012. “Amarg’ is the Amazigh (Berber) word for nostalgia,” Wakrim writes. “The aim of the photographs is to impart a deep and fundamental understanding of the desert’s ability to spur the type of introspection and enlightenment that writers like Saint-Exupéry wrote about with such passion”(zakariawakrim.com). WorldLiteratureToday Belief in an Age of Intolerance guest-edited by Yahia Lababidi ALSO FEATURING Poetry by Rumi,Ted Kooser, Robert Bly, and more Aminatta Forna on Selective Empathy” An Interview with Turkish Writer Aslı Erdoğan “ Your passport to great reading REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS BY Carmen Maria Machado, Haruki Murakami, Alisa Ganieva & more What’s on worldlit.org Web Exclusive Visit our website for exclusive content including original audio recordings, photo galleries, blog posts, and more. “The Grammar of Tolerance,” an essay by Hamza Yusuf Online Extras Look for these icons throughout the issue for information about exclusive content found online. web exclusive photo gallery audio video Yvonne Daniel interviewed by Vikram Zutshi Socrates’trial for the 21st century, by Alex Stein Web Exclusive Web Exclusive Join the WLT community...