Jim Hannan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3991708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jim Hannan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jim |
| FAMILY NAME | Hannan |
| SIGNATURE | HANNAN J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Yahia LababidiWhere Epics Fail
Marilyn Chin A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems W. W. Norton Born in Hong Kong and a current chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in San Diego, Marilyn Chin has been at the forefront of contemporary poetry for decades. Existing in the culturally rich overlap between her Chinese heritage and experience with American assimilation, these new and selected poems boast a fearless energy and tenderness of spirit that are cer…
American War
tries to meet loss in the eye, not just the loss of the lover but also that of the self and the others gripped in the chaos around her. Razi’s decentered, fluid narrative perfectly matches the mood and experience she is trying to capture. It, however, sometimes feels too much: too many shifts happening, in time (as well as verb tenses) and in perspective ; too many people and events that are touched upon without becoming flesh and blood for us to…
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
motion the two men’s stories, the chapters alternating between Ochoa and Tony, their similar histories of abuse and neglect, their complex romantic relationship. There isn’t a character in Tiger who is not in some way damaged, and more often than not that damage is of a sexual nature. At its heart, the novel is about regret, guilt, and very human characters learning how to live with themselves. It is about the transference of trauma and how we de…
Falling in Love with Hominids
in Yambol, in southeastern Bulgaria, and spent most of his childhood in Topolovgrad, the even smaller “town of poplars” at the foot of Sakar Mountain. Gospodinov has written four books of poetry, which influenced his style when he turned to prose. His first, Natural Novel, was an instant success in Bulgaria and has been translated into twenty-one languages. The Physics of Sorrow is his second “novel.” Actually, Gospodinov blows up the norms and d…
Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh
as the ending of the fox and raven fable, in which an ant with a violin teams up with an opera-singing human shark and they play havoc together. The author is both an award-winning painter and poet. The vivid details, poetic touches, and allusions in these stories attest to that: Kandinsky, Ensor, Munch, Hoffmann , Goethe, Grimm, Pushkin, Doctor Zhivago, and others. He is currently under nomination for the 2015 Gysbert Japicx Prize for fiction. H…
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
The novel is divided into four books of roughly eighty-five pages each—The Book of the Mother, The Book of the Wife, The Book of the Sister, and The Book of the Daughter— each devoted to narrating the encounters among the four female interlocutors and Tahirih after her arrest and confinement in the house of the mayor of Teheran for the final three years of her martyrdom. The mother’s perspective is contained in the thoughts, words, and actions of…
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
January–February 2014 • 55 Fleur Adcock Glass Wings Bloodaxe Books A whimsical collection of poems connected by author Fleur Adcock's observation and interaction with arthropods all over the globe, from her native New Zealand to her current home in London. The simple format makes it easy to understand the stories of people who have touched Adcock's life as she, in turn, reaches out to those closest to her. Abe Kōbō The Frontier Within Richard F. …
Supplying Salt and Light by Lorna Goodison
114 worldliteraturetoday.org reviews away as insignificant or unwanted, turns out to be a tiny moth; this, in turn, illustrates the importance of Gerber’s close looking—what Krishnamurti called “the flame of attention”—without which we might otherwise miss a great deal of the beauty, the fine beauty, of our lives. Gerber’s diction can be quirky, even a little obtuse: words like “alembic ” and “eremite” and “iridaceous” seem dropped into poems tha…
Love Is Power, or Something Like That
November–December 2013 • 59 Alai Tibetan Soul Karen Gernant & Chen Zeping, tr. MerwinAsia Now a full-time writer after a long prelude as a farmer, a construction worker, a tractor driver, and a history teacher, Alai brings his myriad of experiences as a Tibetan to this collection of short stories. He combines elements of traditional folklore with modern life, giving a rich portrait of the varied culture in his homeland. Ai Mi Under the Hawthorn T…
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
58 worldliteraturetoday.org reviews landlord refuses to rent to them any longer and expects them to work on shares. Tike narrates this as his “Fall,” from the ragged, precarious grace of being able to call a parcel of land his by virtue of a lease agreement to having “lost all of my hold on my whole world” andto“letmyselffallsolow,sodamned low, as to end up being just another cropper!” The dream that keeps Tike and Ella May from utter despair is …
The Legend of Pradeep Mathew
Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson The Flatey Enigma Brian FitzGibbon, tr. AmazonCrossing The Flatey Enigma, Viktor Ingolfsson’s sixth mystery novel, is set on a remote Icelandic island during the 1960s. One by one, several inhabitants are murdered and mutilated. The investigation reveals a perplexing connection to a Viking legend, which may provide clues for solving the puzzle. january–february 2013 • 63 Jacek Gutorow The Folding Star and Other Poems Piotr…
A Free Man
Tom Taylor Brock’s Traitor Hancock & Dean Brock’s Traitor, the third volume of a trilogy including Brock’s Agent and Brock’s Railroad, takes place during Canada’s pivotal War of 1812. The likable character of Jonathan Westlake is brought vividly to life as he navigates through intrigue, harrowing battles, honor, and love. Tom Taylor’s prose is crisp and lively, incorporating well-researched historical detail with wit, humor, and imagination. Aaro…
No Time Like the Present
SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2012 65 Binnie Brennan A Certain Grace Quattro Books In this collection of short fiction, Canadian author Brennan measures out tales of the ordinary. Focusing on the quiet distance that can grow between brother and sister, parent and child, family and friend, Brennan writes with an honest simplicity that discovers the extraordinary and beautiful in the small events of daily life. Mario Benedetti Witness: The Selected Poems Louis…
The Watch
66 WORLD LITERATURE TODAY reviews Kristín Ómarsdóttir. Children in Reindeer Woods. Lytton Smith, tr. Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2012. isbn 9781934824351 In the opening scene of Children in Reindeer Woods, Rafael and some fellow soldiers come across a farm. The soldiers murder its civilian occupants (men, women, and children) in cold blood. We learn nothing more of the newly deceased. Rafael then turns on his cohorts, dispatching them with …
River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
husband, who chooses to live in the garage attic, where he can spy on his family, until the moment it appears someone might take his place. While Doctorow revisits the constricted space of Hawthorne’s story and the possibility of effacing one’s identity within the community. Doctorow favors first-person narration , characters enmeshed in a situation : an Episcopal priest in a failing church, buying back stolen items from street vendors; a convert…
Open City by Teju Cole (review)
imagination, isa dangerous placeto explore in depth.Thediaryis also a testimony anda warning: itisnot possibletoescapethesandbank, or blindalley.He whoflees willfinally be caught inhisorherownimaginaryconstruction ina spacewhere reality gets entangled with madness. InDiario delaarena ,HugoBurel exploresthe personaldimension of an obscuremachineoperator's defeat during a time ofmilitary dictatorship . Thethreatening shadowof therepressive power, a…
Ossuaries by Dionne Brand
WORLD LITERATURE IN REVIEW Verse Dionne Brand. Ossuaries. Toronto. McClelland & Stewart. 2010. 124 pages. Can$18.99 / $15.50. isbn978-0 7710-1734-6 Throughout her poetry, Dionne Brand merges a questioning, pas sionate, often lonely sensibilitywith a commitment to political activism and justice for historical and recent wrongs. As titles such as Primitive Offensiveand No Language IsNeutral suggest, her earliest poetry some times lacked subtlety,bu…
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
his elderswould soon die and "even though ithad been long since they had protected me from anything, I would be leftalone and exposed to the world, devoid ofhome and love, leftalone to confront all thepeople fullofpain and anger." Michele Levy North CarolinaA&T University Marlon James. The Book of Night Women. New York. Riverhead. 2009. 417 pages. $26.95. isbn 978-1-59448-857-3 Jamaican author Marlon James sets his second novel on a Jamai can sug…
In the Falling Snow by Caryl Phillips
m z ? es p H < w H h-J Q pfj O dor. Shortly before the engagement ceremony, Kemal falls in love with F?sun Keskin, an eighteen-year old distant family member from a lower-middle-class family who works at a shop called ?anzelize Boutique. Their passionate love affair ends abruptly when F?sun disappears after KemaFs engage ment ceremony. As Kemal realizes the extent of his infatuation with her, F?sun has already been mar ried off toan aspiring youn…
The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi
V Ralf Roth mann Feuerbrennt r Ralf Rothmann. Feuer brennt nicht. Frankfurt am Main. Suhrkamp. 2009. 304 pages. 19.80. isbn 978-3-518 42063-8 In Wolf, theprotagonist from whose perspective Ralf Rothmann's latest novel is told, Rothmann has suc ceeded in creating a clinically per fectportrait of narcissism. Like his creator,Wolf is a writer who has by now, about to turn fifty, become successful enough to live comfort ably fromhis writing.When he h…
Guinea Woman
For the Geography of a Soul
Crossing Couplets
New Literary History - Volume 33, Number 3, Summer 2002
Crossing Couplets
New Literary History - Volume 33, Number 3, Summer 2002
Guinea Woman
For the Geography of a Soul
Guinea Woman
For the Geography of a Soul
Crossing Couplets
New Literary History - Volume 33, Number 3, Summer 2002
The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi
V Ralf Roth mann Feuerbrennt r Ralf Rothmann. Feuer brennt nicht. Frankfurt am Main. Suhrkamp. 2009. 304 pages. 19.80. isbn 978-3-518 42063-8 In Wolf, theprotagonist from whose perspective Ralf Rothmann's latest novel is told, Rothmann has suc ceeded in creating a clinically per fectportrait of narcissism. Like his creator,Wolf is a writer who has by now, about to turn fifty, become successful enough to live comfort ably fromhis writing.When he h…
Ossuaries by Dionne Brand
WORLD LITERATURE IN REVIEW Verse Dionne Brand. Ossuaries. Toronto. McClelland & Stewart. 2010. 124 pages. Can$18.99 / $15.50. isbn978-0 7710-1734-6 Throughout her poetry, Dionne Brand merges a questioning, pas sionate, often lonely sensibilitywith a commitment to political activism and justice for historical and recent wrongs. As titles such as Primitive Offensiveand No Language IsNeutral suggest, her earliest poetry some times lacked subtlety,bu…
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
his elderswould soon die and "even though ithad been long since they had protected me from anything, I would be leftalone and exposed to the world, devoid ofhome and love, leftalone to confront all thepeople fullofpain and anger." Michele Levy North CarolinaA&T University Marlon James. The Book of Night Women. New York. Riverhead. 2009. 417 pages. $26.95. isbn 978-1-59448-857-3 Jamaican author Marlon James sets his second novel on a Jamai can sug…
In the Falling Snow by Caryl Phillips
m z ? es p H < w H h-J Q pfj O dor. Shortly before the engagement ceremony, Kemal falls in love with F?sun Keskin, an eighteen-year old distant family member from a lower-middle-class family who works at a shop called ?anzelize Boutique. Their passionate love affair ends abruptly when F?sun disappears after KemaFs engage ment ceremony. As Kemal realizes the extent of his infatuation with her, F?sun has already been mar ried off toan aspiring youn…
Open City by Teju Cole (review)
imagination, isa dangerous placeto explore in depth.Thediaryis also a testimony anda warning: itisnot possibletoescapethesandbank, or blindalley.He whoflees willfinally be caught inhisorherownimaginaryconstruction ina spacewhere reality gets entangled with madness. InDiario delaarena ,HugoBurel exploresthe personaldimension of an obscuremachineoperator's defeat during a time ofmilitary dictatorship . Thethreatening shadowof therepressive power, a…
No Time Like the Present
SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2012 65 Binnie Brennan A Certain Grace Quattro Books In this collection of short fiction, Canadian author Brennan measures out tales of the ordinary. Focusing on the quiet distance that can grow between brother and sister, parent and child, family and friend, Brennan writes with an honest simplicity that discovers the extraordinary and beautiful in the small events of daily life. Mario Benedetti Witness: The Selected Poems Louis…
The Watch
66 WORLD LITERATURE TODAY reviews Kristín Ómarsdóttir. Children in Reindeer Woods. Lytton Smith, tr. Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2012. isbn 9781934824351 In the opening scene of Children in Reindeer Woods, Rafael and some fellow soldiers come across a farm. The soldiers murder its civilian occupants (men, women, and children) in cold blood. We learn nothing more of the newly deceased. Rafael then turns on his cohorts, dispatching them with …
River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
husband, who chooses to live in the garage attic, where he can spy on his family, until the moment it appears someone might take his place. While Doctorow revisits the constricted space of Hawthorne’s story and the possibility of effacing one’s identity within the community. Doctorow favors first-person narration , characters enmeshed in a situation : an Episcopal priest in a failing church, buying back stolen items from street vendors; a convert…
Love Is Power, or Something Like That
November–December 2013 • 59 Alai Tibetan Soul Karen Gernant & Chen Zeping, tr. MerwinAsia Now a full-time writer after a long prelude as a farmer, a construction worker, a tractor driver, and a history teacher, Alai brings his myriad of experiences as a Tibetan to this collection of short stories. He combines elements of traditional folklore with modern life, giving a rich portrait of the varied culture in his homeland. Ai Mi Under the Hawthorn T…
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
58 worldliteraturetoday.org reviews landlord refuses to rent to them any longer and expects them to work on shares. Tike narrates this as his “Fall,” from the ragged, precarious grace of being able to call a parcel of land his by virtue of a lease agreement to having “lost all of my hold on my whole world” andto“letmyselffallsolow,sodamned low, as to end up being just another cropper!” The dream that keeps Tike and Ella May from utter despair is …
The Legend of Pradeep Mathew
Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson The Flatey Enigma Brian FitzGibbon, tr. AmazonCrossing The Flatey Enigma, Viktor Ingolfsson’s sixth mystery novel, is set on a remote Icelandic island during the 1960s. One by one, several inhabitants are murdered and mutilated. The investigation reveals a perplexing connection to a Viking legend, which may provide clues for solving the puzzle. january–february 2013 • 63 Jacek Gutorow The Folding Star and Other Poems Piotr…
A Free Man
Tom Taylor Brock’s Traitor Hancock & Dean Brock’s Traitor, the third volume of a trilogy including Brock’s Agent and Brock’s Railroad, takes place during Canada’s pivotal War of 1812. The likable character of Jonathan Westlake is brought vividly to life as he navigates through intrigue, harrowing battles, honor, and love. Tom Taylor’s prose is crisp and lively, incorporating well-researched historical detail with wit, humor, and imagination. Aaro…
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
January–February 2014 • 55 Fleur Adcock Glass Wings Bloodaxe Books A whimsical collection of poems connected by author Fleur Adcock's observation and interaction with arthropods all over the globe, from her native New Zealand to her current home in London. The simple format makes it easy to understand the stories of people who have touched Adcock's life as she, in turn, reaches out to those closest to her. Abe Kōbō The Frontier Within Richard F. …
Supplying Salt and Light by Lorna Goodison
114 worldliteraturetoday.org reviews away as insignificant or unwanted, turns out to be a tiny moth; this, in turn, illustrates the importance of Gerber’s close looking—what Krishnamurti called “the flame of attention”—without which we might otherwise miss a great deal of the beauty, the fine beauty, of our lives. Gerber’s diction can be quirky, even a little obtuse: words like “alembic ” and “eremite” and “iridaceous” seem dropped into poems tha…
Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh
as the ending of the fox and raven fable, in which an ant with a violin teams up with an opera-singing human shark and they play havoc together. The author is both an award-winning painter and poet. The vivid details, poetic touches, and allusions in these stories attest to that: Kandinsky, Ensor, Munch, Hoffmann , Goethe, Grimm, Pushkin, Doctor Zhivago, and others. He is currently under nomination for the 2015 Gysbert Japicx Prize for fiction. H…
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
The novel is divided into four books of roughly eighty-five pages each—The Book of the Mother, The Book of the Wife, The Book of the Sister, and The Book of the Daughter— each devoted to narrating the encounters among the four female interlocutors and Tahirih after her arrest and confinement in the house of the mayor of Teheran for the final three years of her martyrdom. The mother’s perspective is contained in the thoughts, words, and actions of…
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
motion the two men’s stories, the chapters alternating between Ochoa and Tony, their similar histories of abuse and neglect, their complex romantic relationship. There isn’t a character in Tiger who is not in some way damaged, and more often than not that damage is of a sexual nature. At its heart, the novel is about regret, guilt, and very human characters learning how to live with themselves. It is about the transference of trauma and how we de…
Falling in Love with Hominids
in Yambol, in southeastern Bulgaria, and spent most of his childhood in Topolovgrad, the even smaller “town of poplars” at the foot of Sakar Mountain. Gospodinov has written four books of poetry, which influenced his style when he turned to prose. His first, Natural Novel, was an instant success in Bulgaria and has been translated into twenty-one languages. The Physics of Sorrow is his second “novel.” Actually, Gospodinov blows up the norms and d…
American War
tries to meet loss in the eye, not just the loss of the lover but also that of the self and the others gripped in the chaos around her. Razi’s decentered, fluid narrative perfectly matches the mood and experience she is trying to capture. It, however, sometimes feels too much: too many shifts happening, in time (as well as verb tenses) and in perspective ; too many people and events that are touched upon without becoming flesh and blood for us to…
Yahia LababidiWhere Epics Fail
Marilyn Chin A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems W. W. Norton Born in Hong Kong and a current chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in San Diego, Marilyn Chin has been at the forefront of contemporary poetry for decades. Existing in the culturally rich overlap between her Chinese heritage and experience with American assimilation, these new and selected poems boast a fearless energy and tenderness of spirit that are cer…
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