I would recommend Through the Arc of the Rain Forest by Karen Tei Yamashita.

Hello, everyone,

I am a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the French and Francophone Studies Department at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. My research focuses on French and Francophone cinema (with a particular focus on film and genocide). Currently, I am working on representations of the Khmer Rouge regime in film and art.

I read Player Piano about 1972 and really only remembered the outlines of it and that American citizen translated as slave when I reread it last week.  Now I’ve just published a book that traces colored people in Western Utopian literature from the Civil War to 2000, BLUE SKY FOR BLACK AMERICA, I realize that I did not see Player Piano as a…[Read more]

I want to thank everyone who has replied (by email and post) to my query so far — and to say please keep the recommendations coming! I have received many interesting ideas. At some point, probably several months into the future, I plan to share a master list with you that results from this query and related research. – Christopher Michaelson

Greetings!

I’m an assistant professor of French in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University. My research focuses on contemporary Maghrebi literature and film, with a particular interest in Algerian cultural production. I’m currently working on a book project, Aesthetics and Aftermath in Algeria, which…[Read more]

One novel that comes to mind is Aravind Adiga’s White Tiger, a Kafkaesque and extremely nihilistic novel about present-day India, globalization, and some of the corruption in Indian business and politics.  Some criticize the book as succumbing to a kind of neo-Orientalism, while others laud it as exposing some of the serious problems facing In…[Read more]

Hi, everyone,

I’m an associate professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and my research focuses primarily on discourses of the body in the contemporary literature of the Americas. I publish more on Hispanophone, Lusophone, and Anglophone authors in the Americas, but I do incorporate some Francophone American…[Read more]

Haiti: Beyond Commemorations & Boundaries (University of Chicago, May 12-14, 2016; Deadline: August 14, 2015)
Graduate Student & Faculty Joint Conference

http://www.fabula.org/actualites/graduate-student-faculty-joint-conference-haiti-beyond-commemorations-boundaries-university-of_69132.php

A couple of accessible short story suggestions from the environmentally-focused series on Oil and Water that The Guardian published in the past few years: “The Swimming Pool” by Jekwu Anyaegbuna, http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/16/jekwu-anyaegbuna-swimming-pool-short-story , and “Barthelme” by Joanna Kavenna, http://www.theguardian.com/bo…[Read more]

For a majorly dystopian view of the corporate world written in the 1950s, I recommend Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano. Granted, it is set in the U.S., but its view of corporations as embodying their own cultural existence was way ahead of its time. It shows a vision of what happens when mechanization has displaced human labor.

By way of introducing myself… I am an independent writer/scholar whose work relates to the Francophone world. I live in German-speaking Switzerland but use French quite a lot and read French all the time. (Am a former French teacher, among other things.) Just finished Kamel Daoud’s spectacular “Meursault, contre-enquete”… working on an article…[Read more]

Hi Christopher,

I recommend Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia and Ian McEwen, Solar.  They were both published in the last few years.  They would be good because they contextualize their principal settings, the business or work-related worlds, in the larger framework of contemporary economy and society, the former in de…[Read more]

It has been a year since Claire Oberon García asked members of this forum to introduce themselves, a year in which the forum’s membership has doubled. I would like to invite you all once again to introduce yourselves to the group, and to use this forum to share calls for papers, works in progress or completed papers (see the articles on Aimé C…[Read more]

Quick clarification: I’ve just been informed that Translation Review is no longer the official journal of ALTA.  Apologies for the confusion.