It is our great pleasure and my personal honour as the editor-in-chief to introduce Volume 13 Issue 1 of the IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship. This issue is a selection of papers received through open submissions directly to our journal.
This is the ninth issue of the journal that I have edited (the 22nd for IAFOR journals), this time, with the precious help of our new Co-Editor, Dr Michaela Keck (Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany), and our two Associate Editors, Dr Fernando Darío González Grueso (Tamkang University, Taiwan) and Dr Murielle El Hajj (Lusail University, Qatar).
We are now 30 teachers and scholars from various countries, always eager to help, and willing to review the submissions we receive. Many thanks to the IAFOR Publications Office and its manager, Nick Potts, for his support and hard work. Also, many thanks to Mark Kenneth Camiling, IAFOR Publications Assistant.
We hope our journal, indexed in Scopus since December 2019, will become more international in time and we still welcome teachers and scholars from all regions of the world who wish to join us. Please join us on Academia and LinkedIn to help us promote our journal.
Finally, we would like to thank all those authors who entrusted our journal with their research. Manuscripts, once passing initial screening, were peer-reviewed anonymously by four to six members of our team, resulting in eight being accepted for this issue.
Note that we accept submissions of short original essays and articles (1,500 to 2,500 words at the time of submission, NOT including tables, figures and references) that are peer-reviewed by several members of our team, like regular research papers. Welcome to submit a paper for our regular 2025 Issue (Submissions open: Friday February 28, 2025).
Please see the journal website for the latest information and to read past issues: https://iafor.org/journal/iafor-journal-of-literature-and-librarianship. Issues are freely available to read online, and free of publication fees for authors.
With this wealth of thought-provoking manuscripts in this issue, I wish you a wonderful and educative journey through the pages that follow.
Best regards,
Dr Bernard Montoneri
Associate Professor, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Editor IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship
editor.literature@iafor.org
Articles
Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street: The Bildungsroman and Identity Formation
Shadi S. Neimneh, The Hashemite University, Jordan
Trauma Remythologized: Natsuo Kirino’s The Goddess Chronicle
Eugenia Prasol, Nagasaki University, Japan
Short article –
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Silvia Hamilton, and the Morgan Library
Little Prince Manuscript
Bernard Montoneri, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Surface and Depth: Reading Photographs in Obasan and The Invention of Solitude
Chiou-Rung Deng, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Analytical Factors Boosting Service Delivery Among Staff in Academic Libraries: A Review of the Literature
Japheth Abdulazeez Yaya, Federal University Oye Ekiti, Nigeria
Kikelomo Adeeko, McPherson University, Nigeria
Exploring Contrasts: Depiction of Irish Rural Life in Yeats and Kavanagh
Abdel Mohsen Ibrahim Hashim, University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
Birds of Feathers may not Flock Together: Avian Imageries in Contemporary Arab Diasporic Novels
Nour Kailani, UNRWA (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency), Jordan
Yousef Abu Amrieh, The University of Jordan, Jordan
The Sense of Floating and Finding Moorings in Xiaolu Guo’s A Lover’s Discourse
Megha Solanki, The English and Foreign Languages University, India
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