From the Editor

/ Brian Reynolds

Cultural Crossroads and Identity Reconfiguration in Ama Ata Aidoo’s The Dilemma of a Ghost

/ Tzu-Shiow CHUANG

Keywords： Ama Ata Aidoo, The Dilemma of a Ghost, African diaspora, Ghanaian slavery

Necessity and Difficulty of Articulating “Them”: Transnational Fish Workers in J.W. Henley’s Migrante

/ Chi-Han LIN

Keywords： J.W. Henley, Migrante, state of exception, bare life, nameless dead

Bilingualism and Acculturation: How do Indonesian-Mandarin Interpreters Adapt to Taiwanese Society?

/ Rika LIMURIA

Keywords： migration, marriage migrant, acculturation, bilingualism, community interpreting

The Reconstruction of Humanity in the Writings of Heinrich Böll

/ Hui-Fen CHENG

Keywords： Post-war literature, littérature engagée, political criticism, art criticism, freedom of art

A Smile to Saint-Exupéry: A Rhetorical Reading into Letter to a Hostage

/ Ming-Hsing YEN

Keywords： Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Letter to a Hostage, classic rhetoric, World War II, refugees

Juvenalian Satiric Nostalgia in Delarivier Manley’s The New Atalantis

/ Jing-Fen SU

Keywords： Delarivier Manley, The New Atalantis, Juvenalian satire, nostalgia

Henry David Thoreau’s Non-Dual Vision: A Buddhist Perspective on Walden

/ Hui-Fen HSU

Keywords： Buddhism, interconnectedness, mindfulness, Thoreau, Walden

Image, Reading and Writing in Michel Tournier’s the Novel The Erl-King

/ Wei-Chun LIN

Keywords： image, reading, writing, Michel Tournier, The Erl-King

Crises in the Medical Profession. Kristof Magnusson’s novel Arztroman (Medical Novel) and Gottfried Benn’s novella Gehirne (Brains)

/ Monika LEIPELT-TSAI

Keywords： Kristof Magnusson, medical profession, crisis, Gottfried Benn, medical novel

The Nativity Scene of Greccio in the Assisi Cycle: A Journey Through History and Art

/ Paolo Costa

Keywords： St. Francis of Assisi, Nativity Scene, Greccio, Tommaso da Celano, Giotto

Bridging Linguistic Gaps: A Case Study of 若 (ruò) Usage in Chinese-Translated Relative Clauses of Buddhist Texts

/ Mei-Ling LIN (Jianrong SHI)

Keywords： relative clauses, ruò, conditional clauses, hypothetical clauses, Buddhist Chinese syntax