Volume 5, Number 1, June 2011

Table of Contents

Articles
Rabindranath Tagore and Hermann Keyserling: A Difficult Friendship Martin Kampchen, Germany/India	1
The Untranslatability of Dreams K. Narayana Chandran, University of Hyderabad, India	20
Resurfacing of the Literary Public Sphere: Interpreting Pattern Change in the New Media Rajyashree Khushu-Lahiri and Urjani Chakravarty, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India	28
The Road Not Taken: Shedding Xenophobia, Embracing the Other in Umm Zakiyyah's If I Should Speak Raihanah M.M., Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Noraini Md. Yusof and Arezou Zalipour, National University of Malaysia (UKM)	43
John Peter Peterson or Jemubhai Popatlal Patel?: "The Uncanny" Doubleness and "Cracking"of Identity in Kiran Desai's Inheritance of Loss Uma Jayaraman, National University of Singapore	54
The Poetics and Politics of Cultural Studies in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger Lily Want, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India	69
Shaking the Roots of Western Science in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome Sanjit Mishra and Nagendra Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India	78
Pragmatic and Cultural Considerations of Compliment Responses among Malaysian-Malay Speakers Normala Othman, International Islamic University Malaysia	86
The Use of Corpus-based Techniques in Literary Analysis: Exploring Learners' Perceptions Ridwan Wahid, International Islamic University Malaysia	104
Book Reviews
Edwin Thumboo, ed. & Words: Poems Singapore and Beyond George Polley, Sapporo, Japan	129
Rabindranath Tagore, Selected Short Stories. Trans. Mohammad A. Quayum Kirpal Singh, Singapore Management University	131
Chandran Nair, Reaching for Stones: Collected Poems (1963-2009) Harry Aveling, Monash University, Australia	134
Eddie Tay, Colony, Nation, and Globalisation: Not at Home in Singaporean and Malaysian Literature Bernard Wilson, University of Tokyo, Japan	139
Masturah Alatas, The Life in the Writing: Syed Hussein Alatas Carol Leon, University of Malaya, Malaysia	142
Eddie Tay, The Mental Life of Cities Philip Holden, National University of Singapore	144
Rozlan Mohd Noor, 21 Immortals: Inspector Mislan and the Yee Sang Murders Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf, International Islamic University Malaysia	148
Chua Kok Yee, Without Anchovies Lily Rose Tope, University of the Philippines Diliman	151
Gwee Li Sui, ed. Telltale Stories Tamara Silvia Wagner, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	156
Rabindranath Tagore, Selected Short Stories. Trans. Mohammad A. Quayum George Polley, Sapporo, Japan	158
Gerald de Cruz, Colliding Worlds: Memoirs of a Singapore Maverick Ruzy Suliza Hashim, National University of Malaysia (UKM)	161
Abdullah Hussain, Interlock. Trans. Azizah Hamzah and Hashim Yaacob Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof, International Islamic University Malaysia	163
Tabish Khair, The Thing About Thugs Om Prakash Dwivedi, MITS University, India	168
Poetry
Life's Boat; Homecoming A.N. Dwivedi, India	170
end of tunnel; stations of the cross; modern concrete; glass city; fence Eddie Tay, Chinese University of Hong Kong	172
dogcatbird Yusuf Martin, Malaysia	182
A Philologist's Love Song Rebecca Gould, University of Iowa, USA	184
Fiction
Small-time Perfect Paoi Hwang, Durham, UK	186

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