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New Welsh Review 136 (winter 2024) - East Asia - cover

New Welsh Review 136 (winter 2024) - East Asia

Lafcadio Hearn, Jayne Joso, Phước Tiến, Susan Karen Burton

Maison d'édition: Parthian Books

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Synopsis

EDITORIAL by Gwen Davies


EAST ASIAN LITERATURE


'The River Claims Its Debt' – Story by Phước Tiến, translated from the Vietnamese by Nguyễn An Lý

'Powder to the People! The philosophy of Hokkaido capitalist ski bum, Jack Philips' – Biography/oral history by Susan Karen Burton

'Hi-Mawari', the lost Welsh story of Lafcadio Hearn (alias Koizumi Yakumo) –Translated from the Japanese

Jayne Joso on how Japan shapes her work


FURTHER FICTION


'The Banana Banshee' – Story by Deidre Brennan, translated from the Irish by the author


REVIEW-ESSAYS


Steven Lovatt on restoring natural and cultural ecologies in the work of Ruth Bidgood, Rae Howells and Carwyn Graves

JL George on trauma and the magical child in recent novels by Lloyd Markham, Carly Holmes and Vajra Chandrasekera
Disponible depuis: 01/11/2024.
Longueur d'impression: 80 pages.

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