Contents

Editors Corner

Special Contribution
Colonial Formations and Deformations: Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam Bruce Cumings£üUSA

Focus: Asian Literature and Diaspora-Colonial Legacies
Japan and the Japanese Language Within Me Kim Shi-jong£üROK
On Exile Mahmoud Darwish£üPalestine

Poems
Tsurugamine and more Suhbat Aflatuni£üUzbekistan
The Fatherland and more Mansur Rajih£üYemen
Sweetfish and Barbed Wire and more Lee Sang-guk£üROK

Short Stories
The Assassination Of Indira Gandhi Upamanyu Chatterjee£üIndia
Zebra Jeong Do-sang£üROK
Painter and the Beauty Talaptan Akhmetzhan£üKazakhstan

Essay
The Untranslatability of Culture Lewis Nkosi£üSouth Africa

Beyond Japanese Asian Expansionism 5
Changing Japanese Perceptions Of Southeast Asia Goto Ken¡¯ichi£üJapan

Echo
Asia-Africa Literature Festival and Remaining Tasks
Encountering an Underground River Tatematsu Wahei£üJapan
Thinking Beyond Eurocentrism: Consolidating New Asian and African Cultural Relations Fakhri Saleh£üJordan-Palestine