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subscribe now at worldliteraturetoday.org Contents In Every Issue | 03 Editor’s Note | 04 Editor’s Pick | 05 Notebook | 57 World Literature in Review | 80 Outpost may/june 2013 cover feature Bangladesh on the World Stage 44 Bangladesh on the World Stage by david shook, guest editor 45 Opening Bangladesh to the World: A Conversation with Tahmima Anam, Farah Ghuznavi, mahmud rahman, and K. Anis Ahmed 49 The World in My Hands by k. anis ahmed 53 Two Poems from the Chakma by sudipta chakma mikado 54 The Three Stages of Separation by maria chaudhuri departments Crime & Mystery 09 More Talent Than Success by j. madison davis WLT Interviews 12 Leonardo Padura by George henson & michelle johnson 22 Ananda Devi by Dinah assouline Stillman Fiction 18 Empty But for Darwin by tania hershman Poetry 19 Placing Everything on the Line by zvonko karanoviĆ 21 Two Poems by anne marie macari 34 A Soul’s Cartography by Roberto Castillo Udiarte Essay 28 Anne Frank Abroad: The Emergence of World Atrocity Literature by katherine wilson On the Cover Tahmima Anam, photographed at the Liberation War Museum, Dhaka, by Zahedul I. Khan. In the garden, they’d moved on to physics, no less a mystery to the Designers than biology. Some words they found familiar—“We can do Energy!” they cried. “We can do Light!”—but then a neutrino, quark, or solenoid? – Tania Hershman FOR MORE TURN TO PAGE 18 special section The Global South 36 Breaking Out of the Prison House of Hierarchy by mukoma wa ngugi 40 A Globalectical Imagination by ngŨgĨ Wa Thiong’o 40 43 05 34 09 news & announcements editorial board Roger Allen Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda Manuel Durán George Gömöri Talat S. Halman Alamgir Hashmi Vasa D. Mihailovich Farzaneh Milani Tanure Ojaide Ilán Stavans Michelle Yeh Theodore Ziolkowski contributing editors Hester Baer José Juan Colín J. Madison Davis Pamela Genova Andrew Horton Emily Johnson Takeshi Kimoto Michael Lee Monica Seger David Shook Jonathan Stalling WLT WORLD LITERATURE TODAY World Literature Today is published bimonthly at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. Postmaster: Send address changes to WLT, 630 Parrington Oval, Suite 110, Norman OK 73019-4037. Periodicals postage paid at Hanover PA 17331. Copyright © 2013 by World Literature Today and the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma. ISSN 0196-3570 (1945-8134 online). Subscription and advertising rates are listed on our website (www.worldliteraturetoday.org) or can be obtained through the editorial office. Ph: 405.325.4531. Fax: 405.325.7495. 2,950 copies of this issue have been prepared and distributed by the Sheridan Press at no cost to the taxpayers of the State of Oklahoma. The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution. May–June 2013 executive director & neustadt professor assistant director & editor in chief managing editor book review editor programs & development art director digital media editor circulation & accounts digital media assistant Volume 87, Number 3 Robert Con Davis-Undiano Daniel Simon Michelle Johnson Marla Johnson Terri D. Stubblefield Merleyn Ruth Bell Jennifer Rickard Kay Blunck Kaitlin Hawkins iWorldLit Your passport to great reading is now available on the iPad! The WLT iPad app—available in the iTunes store—includes exclusive photos, audio clips, and interactive features in addition to our award-winning magazine content. Download a free preview of the January 2013 issue featuring Neustadt laureate Rohinton Mistry and subscribe for a savings of over 50 percent off the regular cover price. Don’t have an iPad? You can still subscribe to WLT in a “virtual magazine” format at Zinio. com, which bills itself as “the world’s largest newsstand” and is available on all PC, Mac, and Android platforms. Looking for research and teaching resources? Readers can access the complete run of WLT— from our very first issue in 1927 to the current issue—at JSTOR.org. Current Scholarship Program (csp) subscribers and individuals with access to JSTOR’s Arts & Sciences V Collection enjoy complete access to WLT via the JSTOR platform and its powerful discovery, linking, and other tools. Last but not least, visit the WLT website for exclusive web-only content as well as audio and video extras, weekly blog posts, announcements about...

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