Special issue of Asiatic: Religion and Spirituality/Mysticism in Asian Literatures (June 2011). For details, contact the journal’s editor at mquayum@gmail.com.

Volume 4, Number 1, June 2010

Table of Contents

Articles
• Multiple Centres: Thinking About Translation Relations Between the First and Third Worlds Harry Aveling, La Trobe University, Australia	1
• Extending the Notion of Home Through the Language of Poetry David Farrah, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan	19
Forum on Rabindranath Tagore, Asia’s First Nobel Laureate
• The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore Kaiser Haq, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh	27
• Never Not an Educator: Tagore as a Poet-Teacher William Radice, SOAS, University of London, UK	41
• Reading Tagore: Seductions and Perils of Nationalism Satish C. Aikant, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India	52
• Tagore and Education: Creativity, Mutuality and Survival Kathleen M. O’Connell, New College, University of Toronto, Canada	65
• Rabindranath Tagore and World Peace Kalyan Kundu, The Tagore Centre, UK	77
Interviews
• An Interview with Anwar Ridhwan: A Malaysian National Laureate Nurul Fatehah Aziz and M.A. Quayum, International Islamic University Malaysia	87
Book Reviews
• Edwin Thumboo, Still Travelling Sasenarine Persaud, USA	99
• Muhammad Haji Salleh, ed. An Anthology of Contemporary Malaysian Literature Wong Phui Nam, Malaysia	102
• Mary Thomas, In the Shadow of the Rising Sun Carol Leon, University of Malaya, Malaysia	111
• Angelia Poon, Philip Holden and Shirley Geok-lin Lim, eds. Writing Singapore: An Historical Anthology of Singapore Literature Eddie Tay, Chinese University of Hong Kong	113
• Alvin Pang, ed. Tumasik: Contemporary Writing from Singapore Agnes S.L. Lam, University of Hong Kong	118
• Alvin Pang and Tiziano Fratus, eds. Double Skin: New Poetic Voices from Italy and Singapore Pauline T. Newton, Southern Methodist University, USA	122
• Michael Wise, Comp. Traveller’s Tales of Old Japan Somdatta Mandal, Visva-Bharati University, India	126
• Felix Cheong, Sudden in Youth: New and Selected Poems Nancy Srebro, Southern Methodist University, USA	130
• Jonathan J. Webster, ed. Essays on Edwin Thumboo Carlotta Ladyizumi Abrams, Estrella Mountain Community College, Arizona, USA	132
Poetry
• Self Portraits Tammy Ho Lai-Ming, King’s College London, UK	135
• Mother; Magic Masud Khan, Canada; Trans. Fakrul Alam, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh	137
• Robert Yeo’s Seventieth Birthday: Poetic Reflections Ismail S. Talib, National University of Singapore	139
• five pieces for the naked eye Christopher Kelen, University of Macau, Macao, China	143
• Death of a Tiger Moth; In Excess; Island Echoes; Robinson Jeffers’ Medea at Hobart’s Theatre Royal Syd Harrex, Flinders University, Australia	146
Nonfiction
• Celebrating Tagore in Delhi Fakrul Alam, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh	150
Letters to the Editor
• From the Cave of Denial and Discontent, Darkly: Response to Wong Phui Nam’s Review of An Anthology of Contemporary Malaysian Literature Muhammad Haji Salleh, Universiti Sains Malaysia	156

Asiatic IIUM