CONTENTS Editorial 2 Malory’s Lancelot: Homosocial and Heterosexual Discourses in the Knightly Ideal of Masculinity 4 YING-HSIU LU A Comparative Study of Gong’an dialect: An Introduction 17 HONG CAI British Literary Diaspora in the Mediterranean: The (Re)Creation of the ‘Sunny South’ 33 EDUARDO MOYÀ ANTÓN IBERIANISM: José Saramago’s search for his own ‘Golden Fleece’ upon an allegorical ‘Stone Raft’ 45 GABRIELA GARCÉZ PEREIRA S Ethnicity, language, and finding ‘the other’ in Ma Yuan’s Fabrication (Xugou ) 54 WILL GATHERER Translation and the invention of writing: The case of Southern Min alphabet in Taiwan 60 HUI-CHEN LEE Writing Is Thinking, And Learning To Think Need Not Be Boring: Creative Writing In EFL 72 DAVID BRADEN Iconic Transformations in Dostoevsky’s Post-Siberian Works 81 KATALIN GAAL Filipino Diaspora in Australia and the “Language Question” 90 SHIRLITA ESPINOSA City Futures: Aspirations and Urban Imaginaries in Delhi 100 KAVITA RAMAKRISHNAN Futurism and Musical Meaning in Synthesized Landscapes 109 KEVIN MILBURN The Quality of Being Interested (or Interesting) in Research 117 RACHEL GORDON Using Performance in Human Geography: Conditions and Possibilities 124 ELIZABETH RICHARDSON