IAFOR Journal Category: IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship
Circular Horizons, Impossible Journeys: Imagining the Tibetan Fatherland in Tenzin Tsundue’s Poetry
Author: Enrique Galván-Álvarez, Miyazaki International College, Japan Published: April 2012 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.1.1.08 Citation: Galván-Álvarez, E. (2012). Circular Horizons, Impossible Journeys: Imagining the Tibetan Fatherland in Tenzin Tsundue’s Poetry. IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.1.1.08 Abstract Although better known as activist, Tenzin Tsundue is also a prominent Tibetan English poet. As part of a generation …
Fictionalized History: Signifying Changes to the Malaysian Nation and Identity
Author: Sim Chee Cheang, University Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia Published: April 2012 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.1.1.04 Citation: Sim, C. C. (2012). Fictionalized History: Signifying Changes to the Malaysian Nation and Identity. IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.1.1.04 Abstract As one of the cornerstones of fiction, writers often use and confront history in their claim to “reality” and …
Parables of the East in Edward Bond’s Political Drama
Author: Loretta Visomirskis, Harold Washington College, United States of America Published: April 2012 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.1.1.05 Citation: Visomirskis, L. (2012). Parables of the East in Edward Bond’s Political Drama. IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.1.1.05 Abstract The themes of ancient and modern, of East and West, and of “journeys of discovery” form the ideological fabric …
Silk Roads: An Ecosystem of Ideas and Imagination
Author: Michael Stetson, Miyazaki International College, Japan Published: April 2012 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.1.1.06 Citation: Stetson, M. (2012). Silk Roads: An Ecosystem of Ideas and Imagination. IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.1.1.06 Abstract One of the many modern definitions of “globalization” is as a step in world history that develops trade networks that span continents, supersedes …
“Too Long in Foreign Parts”?: An Asian Reception to Cosmopolitanism in Henry James’s The American and The Portrait of a Lady
Author: Patricia Haseltine, Providence University, Taiwan Published: April 2012 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.1.1.03 Citation: Haseltine, P. (2012). “Too Long in Foreign Parts”?: An Asian Reception to Cosmopolitanism in Henry James’s The American and The Portrait of a Lady. IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.1.1.03 Abstract The works of Henry James with their attention to cosmopolitanism in …
“An Unexpected Sound”: Recognizing Diverse Voices in Postcolonial Literary Interpretation
Author: Joanne Nystrom Janssen, Asian University of Women, Bangladesh Published: April 2012 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.1.1.02 Citation: Janssen, J. N. (2012). “An Unexpected Sound”: Recognizing Diverse Voices in Postcolonial Literary Interpretation. IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.1.1.02 Abstract This article explores expectations about the ways in which readers from each side of the colonial/colonized divide might …
Writing Back, Emptying Out and Satanic Narration: Why London Wins Out in Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses
Author: Myles Chilton, Chiba University, Japan Published: April 2012 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.1.1.01 Citation: Chilton, M. (2012). Writing Back, Emptying Out and Satanic Narration: Why London Wins Out in Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses. IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.1.1.01 Abstract The Satanic Verses occupies a prominent place in the postcolonial canon because it challenges the social, …
IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship: Volume 1 – Issue 1
IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship: Volume 1 – Issue 1 Editor: Richard Donovan, Kansai University, Japan Published: April 2012 ISSN: 2187-0608 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.1.1 Articles Writing Back, Emptying Out and Satanic Narration: Why London Wins Out in Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses Myles Chilton, Chiba University, Japan “An Unexpected Sound”: Recognizing Diverse Voices in Postcolonial Literary Interpretation …
IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship: Volume 2 – Issue 1
IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship: Volume 2 – Issue 1 Editor: Richard Donovan, Kansai University, Japan Published: May 2013 ISSN: 2187-0608 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.2.1 Articles Theoretical Encounters: Postcolonial Studies in East Asia Melissa Kennedy, University of Vienna, Austria Mapping the Subterranean of Haruki Murakami’s Literary World Akiyoshi Suzuki, Konan Women’s University, Japan Polysemy of the Other: …
IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship: Volume 2 – Issue 2
IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship: Volume 2 – Issue 2 Editor: Richard Donovan, Kansai University, Japan Published: September 2013 ISSN: 2187-0608 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.2.2 Articles Life after Death? Writing the Alienated Self in Post-war Japan Mark Williams, Akita International University, Japan Coming Home to Modern Japan. An Orphic Dialogue between Japan and the West in Murakami …
IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship: Volume 3 – Issue 1
IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship: Volume 3 – Issue 1 Editor: Richard Donovan, Kansai University, Japan Published: November 2014 ISSN: 2187-0608 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.3.1 Articles How Should We Read Literature from a Certain Area from the Viewpoints of Other Language-speaking Areas? Suzuki Akiyoshi, Nagasaki University, Japan Conflict and Transformation Bill Ashcroft, University of New South Wales, …
IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship: Volume 4 – Issue 1
IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship: Volume 4 – Issue 1 Editor: Richard Donovan, Kansai University, Japan Published: November 2015 ISSN: 2187-0608 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.4.1 Articles Writing Multicultural America: The Powers of Canon and Ethnicity A. Robert Lee, Nihon University, Japan (retd.) Power in Modernization of Language and Literature in Eighteenth-century Britain and Modern Japan Noriyuki Harada, …
IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship: Volume 5 – Issue 1
IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship: Volume 5 – Issue 1 Editor: Richard Donovan, Kansai University, Japan Published: November 30, 2016 ISSN: 2187-0608 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.5.1 Articles Crime Fiction: A Global Phenomenon Bill Phillips, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain The Frontier as Masculine Territory: Sam Hawken’s The Dead Women of Juárez in Context M. Isabel Santaularia i Capdevila, …
Publication Ethics
The IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship adheres to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines. Conflicts of Interest Disclosure Editors and editorial board members/reviewers will not use unpublished information disclosed in a submitted manuscript for their own research purposes without the authors’ explicit written consent. Privileged information or ideas obtained by editors as a …
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Editorial Board
Editors Chief Editor Dr Bernard Montoneri Independent Researcher, Taiwan Bernard Montoneri earned his PhD (African, Arab, and Asian Words; History, Languages, Literature) and his BA in Chinese from the University of Provence, Aix-Marseille I, France. He was an Associate Professor in the Department of European Languages and Cultures at the National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan …
About the Journal
Aims & Scope The IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship aspires to find a balance between promoting cutting-edge research in the relevant fields and providing a forum for dialogue about the forms, roles and concerns of literature and librarianship in the 21st century. It also aims to place the latest work of well-established and respected …
IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship
Chief Editor: Dr Bernard Montoneri, Taipei, Taiwan ISSN: 2187-0608 Journal DOI: https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl Contact: editor.literature@iafor.org (Do not send manuscripts to this editor address. They will not be responded to. Submissions can only be made through the Submit Manuscript Page.) The IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship is an internationally reviewed and editorially independent interdisciplinary journal associated …