MARCH 2018 (45.1) TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: The Latvian Lācis Susan Ingram 7 Asja Lācis and Walter Benjamin: Translating Different Cities Jānis Taurens 15 Die Regisseurin Anna Lācis und der lettische Schriftsteller Linards Laicens: Beziehungsgeschichte Ieva Kalniņa 31 Anna Lācis and Bernhard Reich: Life and Love in the Theatre Līga Ulberte 51 Dear Grandmother, How Are You? The Influence of Anna Lācis on the Development of Political Theatre in Latvia Krista Burāne 69 Seeing Differently: The Film Language of the Latvian Director Laila Pakalniņa Inga Pērkone 90 Riga Dating Agency: Art, Intimacy, and Narratives of Female Agency in Post-Soviet Latvia Inga Untiks 103 Articles Modes, Moods, and Musical Puns in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale Deanna Smid 112 Chaos in Babel: Reconfiguring Biblical Archetypes in Monique Bosco’s Babel-Opéra Nancy M. Arenberg 128 Percival Everett’s Signifying on Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man in erasure Robert J. Butler 141 Review Article The Ethnic Avant-Garde R. Bruce Elder 153 Book Reviews Wong, Lawrence Wang-chi, and Bernhard Fuehrer, eds. Sinologists as Translators in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries Ji Lingjie 162 Phillips, Natalie M. Distraction: Problems of Attention in Eighteenth-Century Literature Alexis McQuigge 165 Blum, Hester, ed. Turns of Event: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies in Motion Melissa Gniadek 169 Bergin, Cathy, ed. African-American Anti-Colonial Thought 1917-1937 David Mastey 172 Glick, Jeremy M. The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution Carolyn Fick 174 Mallot, J. Edward Memory, Nationalism, and Narrative in Contemporary South Asia Anna Guttman 177 Beggar, Abderrahman Histoire et mémoire bouraouïennes I Anne Marie Miraglia 179